A proposed Department of Labor rule defining whether workers for rideshare, retail and delivery companies are misidentified as independent contractors is expected to be released as early as Tuesday, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Details of the new rule have not been made public. But the department is expected to model it on legal guidance that says people economically dependent on a company are employees, or go further to expand the pool of workers who should receive benefits, legal experts have said.
Tim Taylor, a litigation attorney and partner at Holland & Knight, who had served as deputy solicitor at the Labor Department, said rules typically are cleared in three weeks to a month, but the independent contractor rule was with White House's OIRA for about three months. More than one-third of U.S. workers, or nearly 60 million people, performed some sort of freelance work in the past 12 months, a December 2021 survey by freelancing marketplace Upwork showed.
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