Top advisory insights of 2022
SIA’s analysts and CWS Council advisory team provide — through CWS 3.0 — their insights to help program managers keep their organizations compliant and competitive.
Simplify to four essential primary worker engagement types
When it comes to worker classification, many organizations have too many buckets into which their workforce potentially fits. A look at the four primary worker engagement models that organizations need.
Union accuses Alphabet of blocking pay transparency
A union that seeks to represent directly employed and contingent workers at Google alleged in a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board that Alphabet blocked contract workers from accessing internal pay transparency data.
Feds scrutinize electronic monitoring of workers
The National Labor Relations Board’s general counsel has expressed concerns that electronic monitoring could impede workers’ rights to organize, while the DOL lists it as a factor indicating control over workers and, thus, possible employee status.
IC Roundup: Comment period for DOL rule extended; other stories
The public comment period is extended for the DOL’s proposed worker classification rule; 47 workers receive $1 million in back wages and damages; Shipt faces misclassification charges lodged by Washington DC and Minnesota.
IC roundup: Landmark Uber ruling in New Zealand, companies settle lawsuits
Uber drivers were declared employees by the New Zealand Employment Court in a case that could have broader impact; California sees multiple misclassification settlements.
Hidden landmines in DOL’s IC classification proposal
An attorney with law firm Fisher Phillips in a Staffing Stream blog post cautions program managers and staffing firms to be aware of a hidden landmine in the recently announced independent contractor classification final rule.
Whiplash: UK reverses course on IR35 reform repeals
Newly installed UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is scrapping his predecessor’s promise to repeal IR35 reforms that took effect in April 2021. How contingent workforce programs are affected.
DOL makes good on IC promise, new rule pending
The US Department of Labor is moving forward with a new rule aimed at determining who is an employee and who is an independent contractor. The department announced this week it will publish a notice of proposed rulemaking on Oct. 13.
IC compliance: Courier company to pay $575,000 in wages, penalties
A courier service that allegedly misclassified 62 drivers as independent contractors will pay $575,000 in back wages and liquidated damages and ensure future FLSA compliance at all its US locations.
