{"id":241,"date":"2015-07-16T17:43:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/07\/16\/regulatory-trend-for-ride-share-feds-issue-standards-on-employees-v-independent-contractors-big-deal-for-ride-share\/"},"modified":"2015-07-16T17:43:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T17:43:00","slug":"regulatory-trend-for-ride-share-feds-issue-standards-on-employees-v-independent-contractors-big-deal-for-ride-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/regulatory-trend-for-ride-share-feds-issue-standards-on-employees-v-independent-contractors-big-deal-for-ride-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulatory Trend for Ride-Share:  Feds Issue Standards on Employees v. Independent Contractors. Big Deal for Ride Share."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To clear up the national confusion on whether a person is an employee or an independent contractor, the\u00a0Labor Department\u2019s Wage and Hour Division set out to address the confusion with a\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/InterpretMisclass.pdf\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,128,195);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Chronicle SSm', serif;line-height:28px;background-position:0px 0px;\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15-page memo of guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>15 pages of a guidance&#8230;from the government. How can this not go wrong?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NFIB said, &#8220;\u201cThe guidance is going to make it harder to classify workers as independent contractors,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Home Builders Grand Pubah said, &#8220;\u201cI\u2019m appalled by the procedures they\u2019re following,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 15 pages of guidance are said to hit these industries hardest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>technology<\/li>\n<li>construction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/labor-department-releases-guidance-on-classification-of-workers-1436954401\">WallStreet Journal<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/InterpretMisclass.pdf\">US Dept. of Labor Wage &amp; Hour Division 15 page memo<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law360.com\/publicpolicy\/articles\/679249?nl_pk=e95cdcd4-5d9e-440d-ae9c-8f6ace0e5005&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=publicpolicy\">Law360<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To clear up the national confusion on whether a person is an employee or an independent contractor, the\u00a0Labor Department\u2019s Wage and Hour Division set out to address the confusion with a\u00a0<a class=\"icon none\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/InterpretMisclass.pdf\" style=\"margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,128,195);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Chronicle SSm', serif;line-height:28px;background-position:0px 0px;\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15-page memo of guidance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>15 pages of a guidance&#8230;from the government. How can this not go wrong?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NFIB said, &#8220;\u201cThe guidance is going to make it harder to classify workers as independent contractors,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>National Home Builders Grand Pubah said, &#8220;\u201cI\u2019m appalled by the procedures they\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulatory-trend","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}