Uber Will Push to Shape Direction of Biden Gig Worker Regulation

Uber Technologies Inc. and other gig companies are poised to continue defending their business model as the U.S. Labor Department moves to scrap a Trump-era regulation that would have made it easier to classify their drivers as contractors under federal wage law.

The Biden administration proposed to rescind the rule Thursday. If it had gone into effect, the rule would have created a shorter, simpler test for determining when a worker is an independent contractor who isn’t entitled to minimum wage and overtime protections that the Fair Labor Standards Act affords to employees.

As the new administration shapes how the ...