Author: Richard Reibstein Esq.

The Chief of the IRS’s Employment Tax Policy section, John Tuzynski, told lawyers on May 10, 2013 at an American Bar Association’s meeting of tax lawyers in Washington, D.C. that the IRS will soon be pursuing more cases...

The U.S. Department of Labor has targeted a number of industries for allegedly misclassifying employees as independent contractors (ICs), and cable companies are one of them.  On May 9, 2013, the Labor Department announced in a...

April 2013 In the Courts New York federal district court grants plaintiffs’ motion for class certification in lawsuit  alleging that the United States Tennis Association (USTA) misclassified U.S Open umpires as independent...

My two prior blog posts have focused on the rising costs of misclassification liability for trucking, delivery, and transportation companies and the industry’s efforts to avoid such costs when confronted by state laws governing...

The President’s long-awaited 2014 fiscal year budget was released earlier today, April 10, 2013.  One of the “funding highlights” listed in the section of the Budget covering the Department of Labor is to “Maintain support for...

In October of 2010, I reported on a federal court decision certifying a class action of adult dancers that performed services at the Penthouse Executive Club in New York City; the dancers claimed they are “employees” under...

March 2013 In the Courts: A Pennsylvania federal district court grants motion of trucking and courier company, American Eagle Express (AEX), to decertify a class of 201 delivery drivers who allege that AEX misclassified them as...

Steven Greenhouse writes about the Freelancers Union in a timely article for the Sunday Business section of The New York Times today, March 24. The Freelancers Union is not a labor organization, either in the typical mold or one...

Several comments filed by various industry groups on proposed regulations issued in January by the Internal Revenue Service have focused on worker classification ambiguities that are embedded in the “common law” standard for...

On Monday, March 11, 2013, Richard Reibstein, the publisher of this blog, submitted 17 pages of detailed Comments to the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed data collection for its Worker Classification Survey. The Comments,...