Category: United States
Illinois misclassification act claim fails; bona fide corporation, not owner, performed services
From Employment Law Daily — A rare case when a worker was found to be an independent contractor in…
NJ relies on ABC Test to determine if a Worker is an Employee or Independent Contractor
From WestlawNext (subscription required) — The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division said The Unemployment Compensation Law (UCL),…
A company may be liable for the actions of an independent contractor under a theory of apparent agency
From WestlawNext — A company may be liable for the actions of an independent contractor if it represents that the…
States Clamping Down on Workers Mislabeled as Contractors
From Bloomberg – When construction slowed during the recession, some companies hired workers and wrongly designated them as…
Independent contractor misclassification costs Colorado employer $2 million
From HR.BLR.com — This case illustrates the risks involved in classifying workers as independent contractors when you…
Owner Liable For Unpaid Wages And Liquidated Damages for Misclassifying Workers as Independent Contractors
From Mondaq Employment and HR — Following an investigation into certain residential treatment facilities for the elderly, disabled and…
Mislabeling construction workers as contractors draws federal scrutiny
From the Houston Chronicle — Betty Campbell, the Labor Department’s deputy regional administrator for wage and hour in Dallas…said…
9th Circuit Shows No Affinity For Independent Contractor Status In Delivery Drivers
From Mondaq Employment and HR In Ruiz v. Affinity Logistics Corporation, the Court of Appeals rejected the district…
Tenn. Labor Department Expands Efforts To Uncover Misclassification of Workers as Independent Contractors
From the Chattanoogan.com — “The Workers’ Compensation Division of the Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development has put…
NY DOL focuses on misclassification of workers as independent contractors
From Kelley Drye & Warren LLP — “The Federal and State Labor Departments, and the IRS, are…
Lawsuit alleges Uber misclassifies workers as independent contractors
From The Boston Globe — The suit filed Thursday in Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston by Shannon Liss-Riordan,…
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) wants to close worker classification loopholes
From the Mansfield News Journal | mansfieldnewsjournal.com — By classifying workers as independent contractors rather than employees under federal…
