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Focusing The Multifactor Test For Employee Status: The Restatement’S Entrepreneurial Formulation, Michael C. Harper
Focusing The Multifactor Test For Employee Status: The Restatement’S Entrepreneurial Formulation, Michael C. Harper
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The American Law Institute’s twenty-first century mission to restate for the first time American employment law carried the responsibility to provide more clear guidance on the law’s critical distinction between employees and independent contractors. This distinction delineates the scope not only of federal employee protection and benefit statutes, but also of employee protections and benefits conferred by state statutory and common law.
A Restatement of Employment Law, however, like any Restatement, could not formulate clearer or otherwise more desirable doctrine from the whole cloth of the views and values of the Reporters or the ALI membership. The Restatement could not …