The U.S. Labor Department final rule that aims to provide clarity to the raging, and often perplexing, debate around worker classification has a murky future, prompting employment attorneys to advise companies against using the business-friendly test it creates.
The Trump administration’s late-term publication of the final rule Wednesday raised new questions about how employers should decide worker-status questions. The rule, backed by business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, would give companies a clearer path to classifying workers as independent contractors rather than employees who are entitled to overtime and minimum wage under federal law.
But the Biden ...