The independent contractor status of the 140,000-plus registered representatives who work as brokers affiliated with broker-dealers is likely to come under attack once again. The Financial Services ...

Whether a company is a start-up, in growth mode, or looking to hire out-of-state workers, it may face a dilemma about whether to bring on a new worker as an employee or independent contractor. That ...

Are people who work with your business “independent contractors” or “employees?” The answer can be like the Florida weather: if you don’t like it, wait five minutes — or its business equivalent.

Frederick Miner, David Ostern, James Paretti, Jr. The NLRB has reinstated a multi-factor, common-law agency test for determining whether workers are employees or independent contractors for NLRA ...

Two weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Labor published a new rule to distinguish between employees and independent contractors. It also published more than 300 pages of “guidance” to explain what the ...

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.

A trade organization representing independent broker-dealers and other business groups are renewing legal efforts to stop the Department of Labor from limiting the ability of independent contractors ...