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24 Jan 2024, 9:11 am by Kurt R. Karst
We identify R&D opportunities to promote the development of innovative biomanufacturing pathways that could address supply chain bottlenecks for critical drugs, chemicals, and other materials. [read post]
21 Jan 2024, 4:00 pm by Emily Coombs Waddell
Specifically, the new rule departs from the Trump Administration’s 2021 rule that had previously identified five economic reality factors to determine worker status, with an emphasis on two factors as more important than the rest – (1) the nature and degree of control over the relevant work and (2) an individual’s opportunity for profit or loss. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 1:54 pm by Maribeth Meluch
The Department of Labor has long labored to rein in the practice by some employers of labeling workers as independent contractors instead of employees to avoid the requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to pay minimum wage and overtime. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 11:47 am by Daniel M. Kowalski
A foreign student could intend to depart the United States at the end of their degree program, but simultaneously hope to stay in the country if an opportunity to do so arose. [read post]
17 Jan 2024, 10:31 am by Scott R. Flick
The new DOL rule restores the six-factor “economic realities” test used during the Obama administration, which generally makes it harder to classify a worker as an independent contractor by focusing on the degree to which the worker is economically dependent on the “employer. [read post]
17 Jan 2024, 8:53 am by Vanessa Greene
Department of Labor (DOL) published a final rule impacting the classification of workers as either independent contractors or employees. [read post]
17 Jan 2024, 7:30 am by Gabriel Penteado
The GCF Task Force is a network of 43 subnational governments – states, provinces, regions, and departments from 11 countries covering a third of the world’s tropical forests. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 10:01 pm by Neil Schoenherr
But they also need socio-economic re-integration and access to legal aid. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 12:47 pm by Daniel J. Gilman
Some labor markets may be national or even international—say, the search for a full professor and endowed chair in the economics department at MIT, or for an NHL goalie. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 10:00 am by Taylor Hayslett
Department of Labor Issues New Independent Contractor Classification Rule appeared first on Spencer Fane. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 9:30 am by Christopher Bouriat and Wendy Choi
Department of Labor (DOL) published its final independent contractor rule in the Federal Registrar in an attempt to provide greater clarity and consistency on how to classify a worker as an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 7:37 am by Austin Wolfe
  Under its new Rule, independent contractors are characterized as those workers who, as a matter of economic reality, are not economically dependent on an employer for work; rather, they are in business for themselves. [read post]
12 Jan 2024, 6:00 am by Michelle
The Department of Justice is close to finishing an investigation into Apple that could soon result in an antitrust lawsuit, according to The New York Times. [read post]
” More specifically, it outlines six factors useful to gauge economic reality and describes how these factors should be considered in worker classification. [read post]
9 Jan 2024, 8:05 am by Richard Reibstein Esq.
This approach by the Trump Administration’s Labor Department was premised on its view that it was reciting the prevailing law under the so-called “economic realities test” created by the courts. [read post]
The MoU signed between Ethiopia and Somaliland on January 2, 2024, detailed wide-scope cooperation in social, economic, political and military fields. [read post]
However, it has been reported the Alliance was not entirely successful, with the US Department of State stating that “only 2 percent of economic growth in 1960s Latin America directly benefited the poor; and there was a general deterioration of United States-Latin American relations by the end of the 1960s. [read post]