Your search for ‘Independent’ returned 73,057 results

Many employers mistakenly believe that the misclassification of employees as independent contractors does not really matter, so long as contractors satisfy all of their tax obligations.

What do the Department of Labor, the Internal Revenue Service, and Congress have in common?

For years, the contracting community has questioned the effectiveness and fairness of the government's suspension and debarment process.

The Presidential Decision No. 6434 on Determination of Companies subject to Independent Auditing (the "Decision") was published in the Official Gazette on November 30, 2022.

The Independent Sponsor model continues to develop across Europe, with well over 500 Independent Sponsors now active across the continent and new entrants joining every week.

Independent directors can be valuable members of a board that has investor-appointed directors. An independent director can empathize with what a management team is going through...

In Eylander v. Prologis Targeted U.S. Logistics Fund, LP, (Dec. 7, 2023), the Washington Supreme Court held that a landowner may delegate to a qualified independent...

An obvious example is where the board seeks expertise in a particular area of law that neither the general counsel nor regular outside counsel possess.

The Democrat-majority National Labor Relations Board readied for 2022 by announcing plans to confront two President Trump-era legal tests...

For anyone following the employee versus independent contractor battles, Uber just scored in Florida.

As you may have seen in our recent article on the Labor and Employment Law Blog, the California Supreme Court recently issued a landmark decision in the case of Dynamex Operations West, Inc.

On May 17, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued its ruling in Taylor v. Eastern Connection Operating, Inc., holding the Massachusetts independent contractor, wage and overtime statutes may apply, in certain circumstances, to out-of-state workers of Massachusetts companies.

The plaintiff in Ruggiero was an insurance agent who entered into a contract with American United Life Insurance Company ("AUL") to sell AUL's insurance products and recruit and train other agents to do the same.

I often receive calls that begin with a story like this: "We had the maintenance guy do this project for us a year or two ago, and we really liked him, so we kept him on.

Remember the Trump administration's new rule for classifying workers as independent contractors? The one issued on January 6, 2021...

The United States Department of Labor published a new final rule regarding classification of workers as independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) on January 10, 2024.

On Oct. 3, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of New Prime Inc. v. Oliveira, No. 17-340.

In a potentially far-reaching decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court, in D'Annunzio v. Prudential Insurance Co No. A-119-2005 (July 25, 2007), ruled that in certain circumstances, an independent contractor may constitute an employee under New Jersey's whistleblower statute, the Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA), and thus be entitled to pursue a statutory wrongful termination claim.