The US Department of Labor has announced proposals to eliminate two of the previous administration’s signature rules, the joint employer rule and the independent contractor rule. First, the US Department of Labor (DOL) has...more
The US Department of Labor has established a traditional control standard for determining joint employer status under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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DOL’s proposed interpretation of the joint employer standard in a recently released notice of proposed rulemaking would revert to a traditional control standard and use a new “four-factor balancing test” for determining joint...more