Labor Department reverses Trump-era rule that made it easier for companies to call workers independent contractors
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The U.S. Labor Department on Wednesday rescinded a policy that would have made it easier to classify workers as independent contractors.
The old "Independent Contractor Rule" was posted in the last days of the Trump administration, and was supposed to take effect in just two days. The move means the Labor Department will continue to use existing rules under the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act to determine whether a worker should be classified as an independent contractor without traditional wage and employee benefit protections.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.