Richard Alfred was interviewed in a July 16 story by NPR on the administrator of the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division's new guidance on how to determine whether a worker is an independent contractor or an employee. Alfred said that the administrator has expressed the Wage and Hour Division's hostility to the use of independent contractors by employers. You can listen to the full story here.

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