12/08/2016
hunt for misclassified workers yielded 9.8 million in additional contributions during the states fiscal year an all-time high agency spokeswoman Sara Goulet said.
The departments Bureau of Workers Compensation Claims Management Division saved taxpayers 660000 through cost-effective and
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11/16/2016
Department said summary judgment was appropriate since there was no triable issue as to whether SIF had misclassified any of BSB's employees.
Since the time period in which BSB could have commenced an administrative appeal challenging the classification of its employees had elapsed the court said BSB
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10/20/2016
The owners of a contracting business in Fall River have been indicted on suspicion of workers compensation premium fraud for allegedly describing
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10/13/2016
defendants misclassified employees to get lower premiums from New Jersey Casualty an NJM subsidiary. The defendants lied and said all but a handful of SAMRs 50 to 72 employees were office workers performing clerical tasks when most were warehouse workers performing higher-risk jobs such as disassembling
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09/23/2016
Uber the ride-hailing service that stopped operating in Alaska after the state Department of Labor said it had misclassified its drivers as independent contractors rather than employees is reportedly trying to return to Anchorage KTUU-TV reported.
An Uber spokeswoman told the television
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09/09/2016
an unfair deal.
In rejecting the deal Chen said Uber could face up to 1 billion in penalties for labor law violations if the plaintiffs proved they were misclassified. The state would get 75 of that leaving about 250 million to split among the drivers.
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08/31/2016
The Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations is investigating whether construction workers at a hotel-condominium project in Waikiki were misclassified as independent contractors.
The Labor Department on Monday said in a statement that it and investigators from the Hawaii Department
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08/08/2016
misclassification of workers. The departments will share information to identify misclassified workers and will work together on outreach to employers and workers on the issue. Labor & Industry plans to launch a statewide misclassified workers public awareness campaign in the fall funded by a federal grant
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07/28/2016
and Triple Crown Services Co. to stand.
The case is Frederking v. Zurich North American Insurance Co. No. 14-CV-1041-SMY-SCW.
Frederking was a driver for Triple Crown which operates out of a terminal in Madison County Illinois. He alleges that the company misclassified him and other "owner
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07/20/2016
further allege that the WWE misclassified them as independent contractors to avoid having to provide them with health insurance or workers' compensation benefits.
They are requesting money damages disgorgement of the WWE's profits from the allegedly unlawful use of their images and performances and
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