The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”), the agency tasked with enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act, has long applied a six-factor “economic reality” test to distinguish between employees and independent contractors.

Hot off the presses! the Department Of Labor just issued revisions to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). 

If you like positive employee relations, you might be interested in these two legal developments I saw today.

While I typically post only about legal news, the below article from Harvard Business Review was so clutch, I couldn’t resist.

The U.S. Department of Labor has issued guidance regarding employers’ obligations to conduct “reasonable diligence” in tracking teleworking employees’ hours of work.