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Uber Reaches $20M Settlement With Drivers in Classification Spat
03/13/2019
Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc. reached a 20 million settlement with approximately 13600 drivers who said they were misclassified as contractors according to documents filed with the federal court for Northern California.
The settlement would bring to a close a pair of long-running
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Lyft Warns of Adverse Consequences for Reclassifying Drivers
03/04/2019
Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol LYFT acknowledged that courts and regulators might reject its argument that drivers are contractors. The company said it is involved in six putative class action suits filed by drivers who allege they were misclassified.
Regulators in California Wisconsin
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Worker Misclassification a Growing Problem, Contractors Say
02/28/2019
workers' comp premiums if he misclassified his employees as independent contractors.
"That's just our company and there's hundreds of contractors in the state so you know if everybody starts doing this it's a huge problem" said Larson who called for better enforcement by state and local regulators
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Judge Halts Winning Streak for Overtime Suits by Nurse Case Managers
02/25/2019
California medical management firms have paid millions to resolve lawsuits filed by medical case managers who claimed they were misclassified as salaried professionals who are exempt from overtime rest and meal break requirements of state law.
In 2012 Coventry Heath Care famously paid a 3
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State IDs Trucking Cos. With Unpaid Judgments
01/04/2019
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Listed companies also refused to pay overtime or expenses failed to maintain workers compensation or intentionally misclassified drivers as contractors.
Companies are on notice that if they contract with a known wage thief they will be held responsible for the exploitation of the drivers who carry
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Regulators Say Independent Contractor Label Not a Work Comp Dodge
12/06/2018
Carpenters & Joiners of America said the misclassification of employees as independent contractors is rampant in the construction industry as is paying workers off the books such as in cash.
In the construction industry for every one 1099 misclassified worker two are paid off the books said Capece
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Court Puts Brakes on Complaint That Insurer, Employer Conspired to Avoid Comp
11/29/2018
A group of truck drivers who claim their employer and its insurer misclassified them as independent contractors and conspired to force them to pay for their own comp should have taken their complaint to the Illinois Workers Compensation Commission a federal appellate court ruled last week
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BBSI's Former CFO Indicted Over Allegedly False Financial Reports
09/24/2018
only misclassified expenses to understate BBSIs workers compensation expense but also improperly recognized certain federal and state unemployment tax expenses over multiple periods rather than in the period incurred.
Miller also concealed the existence of an actuarial report that corroborated an
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Jury Convicts Businessman of Work Comp Fraud
09/14/2018
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Prosecutors said Snee underreported payroll at Earth n Wood and misclassified employees for example saying some truck drivers were office workers. The fraud was alleged to have occurred from 2011 to 2015.
But Snees defense attorney said the business owner acted in response to pressure to keep the
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Protz Fix May Be in Jeopardy in Final Days of Session
09/10/2018
misclassification of workers to as much as 2500 per day for each day the company operates in violation of a stop-work order.
As proof of the need for the bill Mullery said in a memo that a recent study shows there are approximately 580000 misclassified workers in Pennsylvania which has resulted in at
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