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It took less than a week for a group of freelance writers and editors to file this federal court lawsuit to block enforcement of the U.S. Department of Labor’s new independent contractor rules, which I wrote about here last week.
If you thought the DOL’s final rule would sail through without a fight, think again.
According to the plaintiffs, the impetus for their lawsuit is their attempt, as individual entrepreneurs, “to remain independent in the face of concerted efforts to force them into employment relationships they neither want nor need” through a “vague, new standard” from the DOL that “provides
