Originally published in CCJ on October 14, 2020. Republished with permission. All rights reserved.

A proposal issued recently by the Department of Labor seeks to provide clarity to both motor carriers and independent operators with regard to employment status.

As noted by Taylor & Associates’ attorney Elena Adang in the linked article from CCJ, this new test will still have little impact on state-level labor laws. “A driver or a set of drivers could bring a claim under either FLSA or under state law. It’s important to know both.” Nonetheless, Adang noted … “this is a step in the right direction for both motor carriers and independent contractor owner-operators … because it’s providing clarity on how owner-operators can continue to do the work they want to do in the way they want to do it, while providing carriers a clearer legal standard for those contractor relationships.”

Read the full CCJ article here.