The US Department of Labor has fallen its investigation into the compliance of the degree of it with the act of just work standards, according to a source directly familiar with the matter.
FLSA is a federal law that badly regulates the classification of employees as independent contractors and outstanding salaries. Techcrunch first reported that the scale was the subject of such an investigation in March.
Upwork and Hireart, two of his human resources partners who were also being investigated for the FLSA Compance magazine for Inc., are also no longer investigated by DOL, they confirmed each for Techcrunch.
The scale, which was rated last year at $ 13.8 billion, depends on an army of workers it categorizes as contractors to do critical work to it, such as labeling images for Big Tech.
However, the scale has been sued by former workers claiming that they were paid and badly classified as contractors instead of employees, denying them access to benefits such as ill rest.
It is not clear exactly why Doli threw the probe. The scale of San Francisco, he refused to comment, while Dol did not respond to a comment request.
However, there are several possible reasons.
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A recent A move from DOL hints that a friendly approach to classification of workers as contractors, with the agency announcing on May 1 that he was no longer implemented, at least for now, a rule of the Biden era that made this more difficult.
The scale he is also seeking favor with the Trump administration. Its general director Alexandr Wang participated in the inauguration of Trump (like many other technology CEOs) and has published a letter asking Trump to “win the war”.
Meanwhile, former scale management director AI Michael Kratsios was confirmed in March as the new director of the White House Science and Technology Office.
The position involves advising the president on science and technology issues, and there is no supervision over the dol. Kratsios did not immediately respond to a comment request.
