New Contractor Rules 2025

New Contractor Rules 2025. The updated 2025 rule requires employers to look at the worker’s status in totality. The dol’s new rule, effective march 11, 2025, establishes an updated framework for determining whether a worker should be classified as an employee or an independent.

Department of labor published a final rule on january 9, 2025, defining “independent contractor” under the fair labor standards act (flsa). Classification of independent contractor vs.