President Donald Trump’s executive branch is moving to end its legal defense of a Biden-era US Department of Labor rule on independent contractor status.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a request from the DOL Friday to delay oral arguments scheduled for next month in a lawsuit challenging a 2024 rule clarifying the agency’s approach to independent contractor classification, due to the change in administration.
The rule generally makes it harder for employers to treat their workers as independent contractors, who don’t have the same protections under federal labor laws as employees.
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