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Employer Hit With $1.7 Million Judgment for Misclassifying Workers, Underpaying Premiums
05/02/2024
hours its employees worked and misclassified its business as excavation rather than truck driving. DLI ordered O.M.A. to pay 380000 in additional premiums 1.1 million in trebled penalties and other fines totaling approximately 1.7 million.
The Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals affirmed the
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House Passes Bill Limiting Ability of Carriers to Recover Payments for Misclassified Workers
04/26/2024
Louisiana lawmakers passed a bill that would require workers compensation carriers to provide written notice by certified mail if they want to collect additional payments from employers that paid less for coverage than they should have because they misclassified their workers.
Rep. Michael
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Governor, Labor Department Ramp Up Efforts to Stop Misclassification
08/14/2023
Kansans and ensure every business follows the law.
The joint statement from the governors office and Labor Department says intentional misclassification is illegal and amounts to both tax evasion and insurance fraud.
Workers who are misclassified can lose protections and rights they would have
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Bay Area Construction Companies Charged With Fraud
06/29/2023
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Three people at Atlas Pavers in Concord Candido Silva 57 Itamar De Morais Junior 42 and Irma Ruiz-Alarcon 42 allegedly paid more than 12 million to unlicensed and misclassified construction workers from 2016-2019 prosecutors said in a statement.
The complaint also alleges that the
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DA Announces $6M Settlement with Handy
05/22/2023
The San Francisco District Attorneys Office announced that Handy Technologies agreed to pay 6 million to settle allegations that it misclassified its gig workers in California.
The company which provides handyman services via an app also agreed to a permanent injunction to prevent
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Gig Workers, Employers Assert Potentially Viable Equal Protection Challenge to AB 5
03/31/2023
occupation or business of the same nature as the work performed.
In 2019 the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 5. The expressed intent of the Legislature in enacting AB 5 was to ensure that workers who are currently exploited by being misclassified as independent contractors instead of
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Misclassification Task Force Issues Final Report, Recommendations for Lawmakers
12/06/2022
agencies be directed to pull licenses or not renew licenses if a business is determined to have knowingly misclassified workers and has not paid the fines and fees associated with that violation or previous violations.
The group additionally suggested better data sharing among state agencies and stiffer
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DOL Official Identifies Three 'Concerning' Comp Trends
11/28/2022
Workers misclassified as independent contractors reductions in benefits and states looking to make workers' compensation protections optional for employers are three troubling trends for the insurance industry a U.S. Department of Labor official wrote in a recent blog post on the agencys
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AG Sues Construction Firm for Misclassification Scheme
09/07/2022
payments to workers and shield the company from liability for violating state law.
Drive also allegedly misclassified workers as contractors.
Misclassifying employees as independent contractors deprives workers of their right to be paid fairly and to be covered by workers' compensation insurance in
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Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Misclassifying Roofers
06/02/2022
The owner of a New York roofing company pleaded guilty to charges that he intentionally misclassified workers to fraudulently reduce his workers compensation premiums by more than 250000.
The New York State Inspector Generals Office and Suffolk County District Attorneys Office said in a
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