In a pair of opinions that appear to draw heavily on a pending rule on disputes about classifying workers, a division of the Department of Labor has come down in favor of independent contractor rather than employee status in a trucking-related case before it.
The Wage & Hour division (WHD) of the DOL, in a Monday letter signed by administrator Cheryl Stanton, told two unidentified petitioners from the trucking sector that scenarios for which they sought clarification both would fit under the...