Worker classification is an area of major concern for domestic
and international employers of all sizes. Our Labor and
Employment Group recently alerted you to significant regulatory
action by the US Department of Labor relating to classification of
workers as employees versus independent contractors. Those
regulations, along with continuing action by the National Labor
Relations Board and the IRS in this area, highlight that worker
classification issues are being closely scrutinized
today.
These issues will continue to present employers with the
difficult task of managing service relationships to meet their
business needs while ensuring proper classification of their
workers under the various legal regimes that apply. The effects of
misclassification can reverberate throughout an employer's
Human Resources and employee benefit plan functions. To ensure
a comprehensive approach to maintaining compliance, an employer
must identify and tackle all of the many issues
