HR How-to: Determining Worker Classification Under the FLSA

April 10, 2024

HR professionals play a crucial role in ensuring their organizations properly classify their workers. Accurate classification helps ensure compliance with various regulatory requirements as well as effective management of an organization’s relationships with its workers. Moreover, misclassifying an employee as an independent contractor can have serious financial and legal consequences. Therefore, it’s vital that employers understand the differences between employees and independent contractors and how to correctly classify their workforce.

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