28 Jun Seventh Circuit Revisits Contractor Misclassification
Employment Lessons | Hans MurphyCourts in the U.S. have been grappling with the misclassification of independent contractors for more than 20 years. As our readers well know, there is no standardized test to determine whether a worker is a contractor. Various courts and government agencies all have adopted their own criteria. Fortunately, most of them overlap, but there can be critical differences in the factors and how they are applied. In 2015, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) firmly supported the “economic…