A coalition of United States businesses is aiming to do away with some of the Biden administration’s biggest labor legislation.
Businesses that employ ride-hailing drivers, home health aides, janitors, truckers, and other professionals filed a legal challenge on Tuesday challenging a provision from the Biden administration that guides the categorization of workers. The companies behind the challenge have long argued that categorizing their contractors as employees would incur steep costs they can’t afford, ruining the purpose of the businesses.
The challenge, filed just before the administration’s new rules are scheduled to take effect next week, says the Labor Department threatens to “irreparably harm not just companies employing independent contractors nationwide, but the workers themselves,” the Washington Post reported.
The main group behind the challenge is the Coalition for Workforce Innovation, which sports big-name members such as Uber and
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