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…
Employee or Independent Contractor Cheat Sheet on Classification (Infographic)
From Entrepreneur.com — Read the full story at Employee or Contractor? Here’s a Cheat Sheet on Classification. (Infographic) Related…
Crackdown leaves firms wary of freelancers
From Business Insurance — Most often, however, companies make innocent mistakes when trying to interpret labor laws — often…
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…
NY DOL crackdown on “classification” of workers
From Lexology — In 2013, New York’s “Joint Enforcement Task Force on Employee Misclassification” identified 24,000 instances…
The self-employment surge and how professionals can best prepare
From BinghamtonHomePage — “professionals are choosing self-employment in order to control the type of work assignments they pursue…
Utah unemployment claimant was an employee despite independent contractor agreement
From CCH — another reminder that having an independent contractor agreement is not conclusive if the relationship of…
