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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...

According to the NLRB General Counsel's Division of Advice (GC), Uber's UberX and UberBLACK drivers are independent contractors exempt from the rights and protections of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), including...

Regulators should be commended for granting this kind of common-sense relief. It will help the advisers to whom it applies avoid duplicative surprise examination expenses.

Texas and Colorado banking regulators entered into a joint consent order with a money transmitter over alleged deficiencies in its anti-money laundering compliance program, including late federal reporting, inadequate agent monitoring, and customer information safeguard failures. The company agreed to pay $200,000 in penalties and retain an independent compliance consultant without admitting the allegations.

The court agreed, holding that the "FCC ha[d] no authority to impose th[e] verification requirement" and, thus, vacated that aspect of the rules.

In early August, the New York State Department of Health announced the New York Healthcare Worker Bonus ("HWB") program.

On November 4, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved long-anticipated modifications to the corporate governance listing standards of both the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq National Market.

Over the decades since the enactment of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), many plan sponsors, service providers, and industry groups have applied for, and been granted,...

In recent years, employers have attempted to stray away from the usual employer-employee relationship by hiring a person as an ‘independent contractor' via a "contract for service".

Senior Consultant to our Fund Services team, Melville Rodrigues explains how UK fund boards should pre-empt the FCA needing to impose further mandatory reforms.*

According to the Presidential Decree No. 6434, published in the Official Gazette No. 32029 on November 30, 2022; it has been decided to put into effect the Decision on the Determination of the Companies Subject to Independent Audit, ...

Issues related to whether individuals are independent contractors or employees receive significant attention by employers and governmental entities because of the critical impact of misclassification.

On October 13, 2022, the United States Department of Labor ("DOL") published its proposed rule (the "Proposed Rule") for determining whether a worker should be classified as an employee or an independent...

On January 14, 2021, the California Supreme Court decided, at the request of the Ninth Circuit, that its decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court, 4 Cal.5th 903 (2018) applies retroactively.

The U.S. Department of Labor proposed a new rule, entitled the "Employee or Independent Contractor Status Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, and Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act."

There are many advantages for a life science company hiring a worker as an "independent contractor" instead of an "employee".

Historically, when courts reviewed the independence of a company's outside directors they have focused upon the business relationships and economic links between the director and the company...