The U.S. Department of Labor released a proposed rule to revise how it defines independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act, with a potentially problematic change that will affect ...

In an effort to improve workers’ rights, the Department of Labor announced Thursday that it has formally removed a Trump-era rule that narrowed definition of a joint employer. The rule, which went ...

The Labor Department has expanded the circumstances under which it would consider two businesses to be “joint employers,” making both liable for legal violations by the other. The action comes as ...