The Dizzying World of Worker Classification Just Got Slightly Less Harrowing

No issue is less understood and more consequential for employers than the proper classification of workers as employees or independent contractors. Even under traditional legal regimes, the multi-factor tests used by the IRS and the NLRB differ from one another while purporting to apply the same standard. Plus, various other agencies have created new “ABC” tests and more encompassing standards to determine who is an employee – all reaching to extend these agencies’ protections of the laws they are charged with enforcing.