Business Groups Seek to Block DOL’s Gig Worker Status Rule (1)

A business coalition filed a legal challenge to the US Labor Department’s worker classification rule, seeking to block the agency from making it harder to classify workers as independent contractors across a range of industries including trucking, construction, and the gig economy.

The Coalition for Workforce Innovation, Associated Builders and Contractors, and the Financial Services Institute filed a motion to revive their previous litigation, in which a federal court in Texas blocked the Labor Department’s 2022 effort to revise classification standards, the groups announced Friday. As in 2022, they’re arguing the agency didn’t follow the required administrative procedures for passing ...