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Do Your Employees and Construction Laborers Belong to You? Depends.

Best Practices Construction Law

As a general contractor, you will want to know the law on whether laborers hired through a staffing company will be considered “yours” for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Consequently, traditional employment relationship lines are blurred in determining who is the real employer?

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#97:  DOL's New Independent Contractor Regulation

NH Construction Law

In an effort to avoid the costs and risks associated with the employment relation, contractors and construction managers often prefer to hire workers as “independent contractors” rather than employees.