The latest pivot in a long back-and-forth over how employers should classify gig workers occurred late in February, when the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a rule to loosen the test for determining independent contractors.
The Trump administration intends to rescind a rule issued by President Joe Biden’s DOL that restored a “multifactor economic reality test” for determining when an employee should be an independent contractor, rather than a full-time worker. That rule directed businesses to
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