Tag archives: Wage and Hour Division

US Department of Labor exposes more business as joint employers

By Dennis Jackson (US) on January 29, 2016 Posted in United States

On the heels of the National Labor Relations Board’s landmark decision in Browning Ferris Industries, which found that under the National Labor Relations Act a company and its contractor can be seen as a joint employer even where the company does not exert any control over employees’ terms and conditions of employment, the Department of … Continue reading

Employee or independent contractor: too much of a good thing?

By Norlynn Price (US) on July 27, 2015 Posted in General, United States

On July 15, 2015, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued a memorandum on “The Application of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s ‘Suffer or Permit’ Standard in the Identification of Employees Who are Misclassified as Independent Contractors.” After clarifying the distinction between an employee and an independent contractor and emphasizing that the Fair Labor … Continue reading