Punching In: Racing the Clock to Get DOL Contractor Status Rule

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers

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Ben Penn: The Labor Department managed to raise some eyebrows around town when it slipped news of an upcoming regulation on independent contractor status into last week’s regulatory agenda.

Some attorneys dismissed the plan on the premise that such a weighty undertaking was surely intended to tee up a second-term Trump action, and couldn’t possibly be finished before January 2021.

But as we reported Thursday, DOL is fast-tracking the project with the intention of proposing and finalizing in under six ...