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Company Owners Plead Guilty in $1.7 Million Fraud Case
12/24/2014
that they paid employees under the table misclassified employees to obscure the work they were performing and did not report workplace injuries to carriers including First Comp Insurance Chartis Insurance and National Fire Insurance.
Arias owned Torres Services and Torres Cleaning companies that
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Workers Defense Project Leads Vigil on Behalf of Better Working Conditions
11/21/2014
50 to 60 hours per week painting the interiors of the Tower but werent paid overtime because they were misclassified as independent contractors. After discovering they werent getting paid overtime the workers turned to WDP for help.
One of the painters Jaime Silvino Garcia said in a
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Court Tosses Premium Assessment over Allegedly Misclassified Cable Installers
11/18/2014
An Ohio appellate court overturned a decision by the Bureau of Workers' Compensation assessing an additional 346817.55 in premiums against a cable
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Supreme Court: Strip Club's 6,600 Performers Are 'Employees'
11/03/2014
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Misclassification is a national problem and not just for strippers. It is prevalent in the construction industry and for taxi and delivery drivers. A case is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court on whether an Atlanta delivery service company had misclassified its workers as independent contractors and
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Delivery Company Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Review 9th Circuit's Misclassification Ruling
10/29/2014
stated that Ruiz was an independent contractor.
Ruiz filed suit against Affinity in 2005 in the U.S. District Court for Southern California which is located in San Diego. Ruiz alleged he had been misclassified along with Affinity's other drivers as part of an "elaborate scheme designed to reap all
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Restaurant Owner Sentenced to 8 Years for Payroll Fraud Scheme
10/23/2014
underreported sales inflated rent payments and eliminated time reported on employee time cards to increase his profits and avoid taxes.
To save on workers' comp premiums Elkafrawi and others misclassified employees and underreported wages. When BWC audited his payroll records in 2007 Elkafrawi deleted
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2nd DCA Clarifies What Definition of 'Employee' Applies in Misclassification Suit
10/17/2014
A California appellate court ruled that a group of delivery drivers who were allegedly misclassified as independent contractors can rely on the definition of an "employee" contained in Industrial Welfare Commission wage orders to the extent that they are alleging their misclassification violates
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Supreme Court Adds to Line of Recent Cases Finding FedEx Drivers Are Employees
10/08/2014
" especially those that employ low-wage workers.
Agricultural workers exotic dancers and cab drivers are commonly misclassified as independent contractors by their employers she said.
But she advised that "any employer that uses independent contractors to perform a core part of the employer's business
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Department of Labor Signs Pledge with Feds to Prevent Misclassification
10/06/2014
regularly finds large concentrations of misclassified workers in low-wage industries the release said. In fiscal year 2013 WHD investigations produced more than 83 million in back wages for more than 100000 workers in industries such as food service janitorial and construction.
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Court Holds Sacramento Bee Misclassified Paper Carriers as Independent Contractors
09/29/2014
A case involving the newspaper carriers for the Sacramento Bee has become the latest in a string of California court decisions ruling that such worke
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