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Real-Time Revolution in Labor Compliance

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Construction and field operations are constantly evolving environments where projects, workers, and subcontractors are often spread across multiple sites. Traditional labor compliance software has long focused on back-office...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

Call It What It Is: D.C. Cracks Down on Employee Misclassification in Construction

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Employee misclassification is an area of employment law that has steadily become a prominent subject of litigation in recent years. The decision of whether a specific worker is properly identified as an employee or...more

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

Rare Criminal Enforcement for Violations of PA Workplace Misclassification Statute Leads to Dozens of Charges in Delaware County

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro made the point in a recent press conference, saying, “When you misclassify employees, let me be clear what you are doing: You are stealing.”...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Whose Employee is it Anyway? The Construction Workplace Misclassification Act Provides Clarity in Workers’ Compensation Cases

The first cases addressing the impact of Pennsylvania’s Construction Workplace Misclassification Act (“CWMA”) in the context of the Pennsylvania’s Workers’ Compensation Act, have finally reached the Appellate Courts. The...more

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Red Flags for Homebuilders Related to DOL's Latest Guidance on Independent Contractors

On July 15, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued an “Administrator’s Interpretation” (AI 2015-1) providing guidance on whether workers are employees or independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act...more

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Multi-Agency Investigation Successfully Targets Arizona and Utah Construction Companies’ Misclassification of Employees

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Sixteen Arizona and Utah companies accused of misclassifying more than 1,000 construction workers agreed to pay $700,000 in back wages and penalties after a multi-year, multi-agency investigation led to consent judgments,...more

Troutman Pepper

January 2015 Independent Contractor Compliance and Misclassification Update

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JANITORIAL FRANCHISE COMPANY SETTLES ITS APPEAL OF $4.8 MILLION JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF MISCLASSIFIED CUSTODIANS. Coverall North America Inc. settled the independent contractor misclassification case filed against it by a class...more

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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge of Illinois Independent Contractor Classification Law

On October 14, 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States refused to consider a challenge to the Illinois Employee Classification Act, which classifies workers in the construction industry as employees unless they can meet...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

State and Federal Departments of Labor Joining Forces to Fight Employee Misclassification

Last month, major North Carolina newspapers ran a series of investigative reports alleging that construction companies with federal contracts routinely misclassify employees as independent contractors. While these articles...more

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