{"id":374,"date":"2021-05-12T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/?p=374"},"modified":"2022-06-04T23:13:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T09:13:54","slug":"usdol-withdraws-independent-contractor-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/news-and-information\/usdol-withdraws-independent-contractor-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"USDOL Withdraws Independent Contractor Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Effective May 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) withdrew the independent contractor rule published by the prior administration in the Federal Register on January 7, 2021, then delayed by the current administration on March 7, 2021 (see our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esandalaw.com\/news-and-information\/usdol-proposes-withdrawal-of-joint-employer-and-independent-contractor-final-rules\/\">previous post<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The USDOL cited the following reasons for the withdrawal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Inconsistency with the FLSA\u2019s text and purpose<\/li><li>Limitations on the factors used to apply the economic reality test to determine whether workers are independent contractors or employees<\/li><li>Narrowing of the factors used to analyze whether workers are independent contractors or employees, potentially resulting in workers losing FLSA protections<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the withdrawal rule&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/05\/06\/2021-09518\/independent-contractor-status-under-the-fair-labor-standards-act-flsa-withdrawal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective May 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) withdrew the independent contractor rule published by the prior administration in the Federal Register on January 7, 2021, then delayed by the current administration on March 7, 2021 (see our\u00a0previous post). The USDOL cited the following reasons for the withdrawal: Inconsistency with the FLSA\u2019s text [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skyloft.dev\/hosted-clients\/esandalaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}