Episode Notes

Hey everybody. This is Gene Marks. And welcome to this week's edition of The Hartford Small Biz Ahead. This week we're gonna talk about worker classification rules: 1099 workers and independent contractors. Last month, a U.S. district of court down in Texas stopped the Biden Administration's efforts to roll back a Trump error role that made it simpler for employers to classify workers as independent contractors. The reasons were actually due to a procedural mistake, but the decision, it was a victory for small businesses across the country who otherwise would've had to classify more independent contractors as employees, but my warning to, if you're listening and you've got 1099 workers like I do, that classification battle is far from over. According to some reports, The National Labor Relations Board recently indicated an openness to revisit worker classification rules.

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