05/26/2006
opportunity to work for businesses that meet their obligations to their workers" he said.
As an example of recent efforts Socolow cited an audit which found a national package delivery company "routinely" misclassified drivers as independent contractors.
The audit found that the drivers did not meet
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04/05/2006
the Major League Baseball team. In their class-action complaint the Padres' sales employees claimed that they were misclassified as exempt from California's overtime and meal breakrest period requirements as well as other wage requirements under the California Labor Code.
These sales employees
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01/31/2006
he did not have employees or payroll covering the injury period. The audit also uncovered that Kennedy misclassified payroll by falsifying his employees' hourly rate and hours on time cards. State Fund submitted its suspected fraud case to the San Diego County district attorney's office for its
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01/16/2006
commercial should have been classified to the pile-driving code but has been misclassified to the jetty-breakwater code 6005 for a long time.
"Code 6005 was and is intended only for jetties seawalls dikes and levees and if the industry were properly classified there would not be such a rate
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01/16/2006
Ag Labor in Kerman. It is a farm labor contracting service operating mostly in Fresno and Madera counties.
The task force investigation revealed that through her company Montero allegedly underreported and misclassified employee payroll in the amount of approximately 2.75 million. Her alleged
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11/07/2005
misclassified his employees which not only put them at great risk but also put other businesses at a disadvantage."
A multi-agency audit for the period from Jan. 1 1999 through Nov. 7 2003 revealed that Cooper intentionally underreported his payroll to SCIF for the purpose of obtaining workers
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06/30/2005
the Bureau of Compliance will issue a stop-work order only for the job where the uninsured or misclassified PEO employees are working. He said a single-site stop-work order might also be issued when the bureau cites a subcontractor for failing to provide coverage. In that case the general contractor
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05/18/2005
Reinsurance Corp. to bolster reserves transactions with supposedly independent companies that were in fact controlled by AIG misclassified losses and questionable estimates on deferred acquisition costs.
The firm alleges that it and other class members suffered damages from this specific conduct first
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05/18/2005
of Insurance for their review.
The District Attorney's office later obtained a search warrant and seized
company records to conduct an audit of Hatfield's business. The DA's office
uncovered Builders Framing Inc. underreported payroll misclassified wages
failed to report wages paid in
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05/17/2005
deals set up solely to bolster reserves; bond transactions that allowed AIG to claim gains without actually selling bonds; and misclassified losses.
The complaint further alleges that following the initial investigations lawsuit defendants destroyed evidence resisted discovery and attempted to
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