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On Jan. 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division announced its final rule on Employee or Independent Contractor Classification . The announcement marks the end of a rulemaking process that started with the DOL’s Oct. 22 notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on workers classification under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Officials received more than 55,000 public comments in response to the NPRM. The new rule replaces a 2021 policy issued by the Trump administration and is based off an administrative interpretation issued by the DOL under the Obama administration. Like the NPRM, the final rule preserves the use of an “economic realities” test that analyzes an employee’s classification through the totality of the circumstances of the worker-employer relationship.
The DOL’s initial attempt to withdraw the Trump-era rule was stalled after a federal judge found that the DOL violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by failing to properly seek comment or consider policy alternative before delaying and revoking the rule. The new rule will be published in the Federal Register on Jan. 10, and it will go into effect on March 11.
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The need for fact-based reporting of issues important to multi generational businesses and protecting a lifetime of savings has never been greater. Now more than ever, multi generational businesses and family businesses are under fire. That’s why Family Enterprise USA is passionately working to increase the awareness of issues important to generationally-owned family businesses built on hard work, while continuing to strengthen our presence on Capitol Hill. The issues we fight for or against with Congress in Washington DC include high income tax rates , possible elimination of valuation discounts, increase in capital gains tax , enactment of a wealth tax , and the continued burden of the gift tax , estate tax and generation skipping tax .
Family Enterprise USA promotes generationally owned family business creation, growth, viability, and sustainability by advocating for family businesses and their lifetime of savings with Congress in Washington DC. Since 2007, Family Enterprise USA has represented and celebrated all sizes, professions and industries of family-owned enterprises and multi-generational employers. It is a bi-partisan 501.c3 organization. Family foundations can donate.
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