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A federal judge in Texas has found that gate attendants who logged traffic in and out of oil and gas field drilling sites were properly designated as independent contractors.

Employers can hire two types of workers – employees and independent contractors – and there are serious consequences to misclassifying workers as independent contractors when they are actually employees.

In the December 22, 2014, Federal Register, FDA announced the release of its final implementation plan for reviewing medical device submissions, published as part of an independent assessment of that process.

On Monday, February 7, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan denied in part a professional engineering company's motion for summary judgment in Walters et al. v. Flint et al., part of the ongoing Flint water litigation.

Political differences on the issue have often led to wildly swaying interpretations, guidelines and enforcement agendas.

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup unfolds on American soil, a parallel competition is taking shape in U.S. labor law: the ongoing debate over independent contractor classification and the rise of portable benefits programs. How are digital platforms, state legislation, and federal rulemaking reshaping the future of flexible work arrangements?

But an exemption is not a walk off home run.

A critical but unresolved issue for the motor carrier industry is the continuing viability of the independent contractor truck driver model...

The federal and state governments are moving on several fronts to counteract what they consider to be a significant contributor to the income tax gap: underreporting of employment taxes.

On April 21, 2015, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) held in Sebago, et al. v. Boston Cab Dispatch, Inc., et al., that taxicab companies may classify taxicab drivers as independent contractors.

One of the key aspects of the McCain-Feingold law was the elimination of soft money to the national party committees.

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.

This option may be very attractive to a start-up who may be short on cash to pay salaries and fringe benefits.

Many companies in the technology industry pay workers as "independent contractors" or "1099 workers."

Classifying workers as independent contractors in California- already a difficult minefield to navigate for employers– is about to get a bit harder, more convoluted and, unfortunately, more expensive.

On October 11, 2022, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking...

As expected with a change in the White House, and as very recently foretold in Department of Labor court filings, the Trump DOL announced via a Field Assistance Bulletin on May 1...