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A skeptical view of the Department of Labor independent contractor rule EP138 Drilling Deep

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Is the Department of Labor Going After Flexibility?

There are some pretty small operators out there that are driving for FedEx or not technically, not I was saying technically, but who are not FedEx employees. Back to FedEx, they have employee drivers, obviously, but they also contract out with other companies. It could be again, it's, you know, we would be guessing here, but in the way that they wrote the rules with the GPS monitoring, right, kind of pointing out those things directly. The price setting, the GPS technology monitoring. That made me think of the gig economy companies because that is a staple feature, right, of, of uber.

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