AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - What Foreign Investors Need to Know About U.S. Independent Contractor Laws
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The Burr Broadcast: New Independent Contractor Rule
DE Under 3: US DOL's WHD Published Its “Employee or Independent Contractor” Classification Final Rule
State AG Pulse | AGs Clock In On Wages
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California Employment News: The Employment Start-Up Kit for Start-Ups – Part 1
Clocking in with PilieroMazza: The NLRB Strikes Again: Reasons to Revisit Independent Contractor Classifications
Top 5 Employment Challenges in 2023 for Government Contractors
DE Under 3: Trump Admin Independent Contractor Rule Back; Non-binary Reporting & the OFCCPs New Pay Equity Directive
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Looking back at 2021 and ahead to 2022
#WorkforceWednesday: NLRB Outlook, NY Whistleblower Protections Take Effect, DOJ to Focus on Cyber-Fraud - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: Employee Privacy and COVID-19, CMS Vaccine Mandate on Hold, Independent Contractor Classification - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: Preparing for Biden's Vaccine Mandate, Mandate Pushback Begins, NLRA's Reach Expected to Expand - Employment Law This Week®
Williams Mullen Manufacturing Edge Video Series - Episode 1
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#WorkforceWednesday: Obama-Era Approach, Pro-Union Push, and States Split on Vaccination Policies - Employment Law This Week®
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Biden Administration Quick Take – Three Employment Law Initiatives We’re Monitoring
Nota Bene Episode 117: The Critical Nature of Labor & Employment Diligence in Corporate Transactions with Kevin Cloutier and Shawn Fabian
The Supreme Court issued several momentous decisions last term that will have a lasting impact on employer practices. The Justices continued to shape the workplace law landscape by ruling on an array of issues involving...more
Speaking at the Global Competition Review: Law Leaders Global Summit last month, Commissioner Alvaro M. Bedoya of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) argued that the FTC could — and should — combat worker misclassification...more
On September 21, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the United States Department of Labor (DOL) to bolster the FTC’s efforts to protect workers.According to the...more
This week, we’re running down the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) recently released final rule on worker classification under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the challenges faced by the National Labor Relations...more
It’s an election year. Be careful out there. “A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away,” I represented labor unions. Actually, it was more like 30+ years ago and a few miles down I-85 in Atlanta. Just like that opening...more
On June 16, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision reinstating an Obama-era standard used to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the National Labor Relations Act....more
Do you have 10 minutes or less to stay on top of the ever-changing laws and regulations around labor and employment? Check out PilieroMazza‘s new podcast “Clocking in with PilieroMazza: Labor and Employment News for...more
College athletes will return to competition in a few weeks. They will also return to the courtroom. This time, it relates to the treatment of student-athletes under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). On May 18, 2023,...more
In recent action, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) has demonstrated a clear intention to closely scrutinize employers that classify workers as independent contractors. Specifically, in June, 2023, the...more
On June 13, 2023, in a 3-1 decision, the NLRB overruled its own 2019 decision in SuperShuttle DFW and returned to the test of statutory employee status in its 2014 FedEx II decision which it terms carefully calibrated. In...more
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “the Board”) continued its course of reversing Trump-era law by issuing a decision last month that will make it easier for workers to establish “employee” – as opposed to...more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has made finding independent contractor status harder under the National Labor Relations Act. The Atlanta Opera, Inc., 372 NLRB No. 95 (2023). This decision may significantly affect...more
Shocking few NLRB observers, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in The Atlanta Opera, Inc., Case 10-RC-276292, a 3-1 decision issued June 13, 2023, announced its modified standard for analyzing whether workers are...more
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) issued a decision changing the legal standard it will use to determine whether workers are “employees” covered by the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”), or...more
The National Labor Relations Board, in its decision in The Atlanta Opera, Inc., has modified its standard for determining whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under the National Labor Relations Act (the...more
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) provides a host of labor-related rights for private-sector employees, including the right to form or join unions, the ability to compel employers to collectively bargain with the unions...more
Consistent with other changes instituted by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) since President Joseph R. Biden took office, this past week, the Board reverted to the pre-Trump-era FedEx Home Delivery, 361 NLRB 610...more
Last week, yet another decision by a governmental agency chipped away at an employer’s ability to legally classify workers as independent contractors. In Atlanta Opera, Inc. and Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Union, Local...more
The National Labor Relations Board has returned to its Obama-era standard for determining whether an individual is an independent contractor under the National Labor Relations Act. The Atlanta Opera, Inc., 372 NLRB No. 95...more
On June 13, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued its decision in Atlanta Opera, overruling the Trump-era SuperShuttle DFW, Inc. standard and reverting back to the Obama-era FedEx Home Delivery (FedEx II)...more
The pendulum has swung again in the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) continued effort to distinguish employees from independent contractors. In FedEx Home Delivery, 361 NLRB 610 (2014) (FedEx II), the NLRB held that...more
On Tuesday, June 13, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the “Board”) issued a decision that effectively increases the number of workers who are considered employees rather than independent contractors under the...more
On June 13, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a decision, referred to as Atlanta Opera Inc. (372 NLRB No. 95), that marks a shift in the applicable test for whether a worker qualifies as an independent...more
On Tuesday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overturned a Trump-era precedent, changing the test used to determine whether workers seeking protection under federal labor laws are employees or independent contractors....more
In a hotly-anticipated decision, The Atlanta Opera, Inc., 372 NLRB No. 95 (2023), the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) overturned the existing legal standard for determining whether a worker is an employee...more