DSA, US Chamber and GOP lawmakers submit comments opposing new rule
President Biden’s Department of Labor (DOL) is continuing its push to implement a new independent contractor standard under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Seeking to revise its guidance on establishing classification rules for independent contractors versus employees, the DOL closed the public comment docket for the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) titled “Employee or Independent Contractor Classification Under the Fair Labor Standards Act” on Dec. 13. This puts the DOL on schedule to finalize the rule in the second half of 2023.
Among the groups filing comments were the National Retail Federation, the National Association of Realtors and the Direct Selling Association. Congressional Republicans from both houses of Congress also submitted a joint comment. More than 55,000 comments have been submitted since the NPRM was announced in October 2022.