Is your company at risk of being told that your independent contractors are actually employees? If the Department of Labor (DOL) breaks this news to you, what are the labor implications? What are the tax obligations? What are your legal obligations to a third party?
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In early August, Netflix announced that in addition to offering unlimited sick and vacation days, it would also allow employees to take unlimited paid parental leave. Refusing to be upstaged by the private sector, on Labor Day President Obama signed an Executive Order requiring all businesses that contract with the federal government to begin providing
Developments continue to come almost daily about misclassification of employees as independent contractors. Wage and hour cases, tax rulings, and discrimination charges all are part of the mix.
We have blogged about worker misclassification extensively, covering the DOL guidance from July of 2015, the treatment of Uber and Lyft drivers, and, um, “entertainers”