New independent contractor rule aims at paying more workers as employees
The expanded “economic realities” test increases the government’s presumption that a worker is an employee entitled to overtime and minimum wage protection.
By Mickell Summerhays
The new rule expands, from three factors to six, the government’s “economic realities” test, which seeks to determine whether independent contractors are truly in business for themselves or are actually employees who should be afforded full wage-and-hour and other FLSA protections…
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