Department of Labor Delays Effective Date of Regulations on Independent Contractors and Tips
By EsqSocial Corporation 05/02/21
On February 5, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published notices in the Federal Register of its proposed delay of the effective dates of the Trump administration’s regulations addressing independent contractor classification and tipped workers. The DOL’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) indicates that the delay is necessary to “provide the WHD additional opportunity to review and consider the questions of law, policy, and fact” raised by the new regulations....
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