Independent Women’s Forum president Carrie Lukas discusses the investigation into 17 Virginia high schools for delaying notifying students of receiving merit awards.
Studying how government regulations affect women’s employment is a priority of the organization that I run, Independent Women’s Forum. Now, rather than reviewing data and economic reports, we have become a case study of how ill-advised policies hurt women.
We are working with human resources consultants and lawyers to address this topic from an unfortunate angle: How many women will we have to let go when the new Department of Labor independent contracting rule takes effect?
Guidance from the Society of Human Research Management encapsulates the challenge: "The most basic question about the employment relationship is whether a worker is, in fact, an employee or an independent contractor. As with so many employment law issues, the answer is "it depends."
The new Department of Labor regulations are meant to reduce the number of contractor relationships and push more people into working as traditional employees. (Getty)
It depends not only on the particulars of the work relationship, but on which government entity is asking the question, since "even courts have admitted that the distinction is not always clear."
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