Labor Department Withdraws Independent Contractor Rule

The U.S. Department of Labor on Wednesday withdrew a rule that would have applied an economic dependence test to determine whether a person is a worker or a contractor. On Jan. 7, in the closing days of the Trump administration, the department proposed a rule that would have defined an employee as someone who is economically dependent on the employer for work. An independent contractor would have been defined as someone in business for himself. The rule also proposed a new economic realities test, such as how much control a person has over the nature of work, opportunity for profit and ...