Regulatory briefings, field guides, and company news.
Regulatory briefings, field guides, and company news from the team that runs MSP, RPO, EOR, and IC Compliance programs every day. Written for people who own a workforce program.
The DOL wants to rewrite the contractor test, again. Your classification program shouldn’t swing with it.
The 2026 proposal would rescind the 2024 rule and bring back the 2021 "core factors" framework. Here is what actually changes, what doesn’t, and why jurisdiction-first classification is the only posture that survives each swing of the pendulum.
Read the story →UK umbrella reform: since 6 April, PAYE liability runs up the supply chain
Agencies (and in some chains, end clients) are now jointly and severally liable when an umbrella company fails to remit PAYE. What changed, who carries the exposure, and the six controls UK contingent programs should have in place now.
Read →EU Pay Transparency: the June 2026 deadline has passed. What global employers, and their EOR, need to do now
Directive (EU) 2023/970 was due in national law by 7 June 2026. Pay ranges before interview, no salary-history questions, and gender pay gap reporting are coming to every EU hire, including the ones you employ through an Employer of Record.
Read →The iceberg under the requisition: the ~60 control points behind every contingent worker
A rate card, a job order, a working contractor, an invoice. That’s the part you see. Below the waterline sit about sixty control points across HR, finance, legal, IT, and security. A field guide for anyone thinking about taking a program in-house.
Read →The Regulatory Brief, monthly.
One email a month covering classification, co-employment, EOR, and pay-transparency changes across the jurisdictions our clients operate in, with a plain-English "so what" for each.
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