March 10, 2025
A trucking company told a New Mexico federal court that it will appeal to the Tenth Circuit a ruling rejecting its bid to block the U.S. Department of Labor's new rule for classifying independent contractors.
February 24, 2025
Several ongoing challenges in federal courts to U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour rules are on hold as President Donald Trump’s administration settles in, leaving the fate of regulations impacting businesses and millions of workers uncertain. Here’s a look at the cases and the rules they are challenging.
January 10, 2025
The U.S. Department of Labor acted within its power when issuing a final rule for determining whether workers are employees or independent contractors, a New Mexico federal judge said, declining to apply the U.S. Supreme Court's Loper Bright decision in a trucking company's challenge to the rule.
October 11, 2024
A trucking company failed to show how the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule determining whether workers are independent contractors under federal law hurts it, the DOL told a New Mexico federal court, arguing that their efforts to ax the rule are rootless.
September 04, 2024
Two nonprofit groups threw support behind the U.S. Department of Labor in a New Mexico trucking company's lawsuit seeking to block the agency's new rule for classifying independent contractors, saying the regulations are key for ensuring employers don't cheat low-wage workers out of the pay and benefits they're owed.
September 03, 2024
The U.S. Department of Labor urged a New Mexico federal court to throw out a trucking company's lawsuit that seeks to block the agency's new rule for classifying independent contractors, saying the company failed to show it is affected by the regulations.
August 05, 2024
A trucking company that regularly hires owner-operator truck drivers has urged a New Mexico federal judge to vacate a new U.S. Department of Labor rule for classifying independent contractors, arguing in a motion for summary judgment that the rule makes classifying workers more confusing.
April 26, 2024
A trucking company that hires owner-operators wants to stop the U.S. Department of Labor's new independent contractor rule from taking effect, saying it replaces a relatively simple test with an open-ended one that makes it unclear whether workers must be treated as employees, opening employers up to wage violations.