The empirical finding is meaningless, however; what Pollin et al. have done, essentially, is to flip the classifications of workers as potentially covered by business assistance versus uncovered, by removing from the potentially covered group all those outside the services industry.
Robert Kuttner recently advocated in the American Prospect on behalf of two presidential measures: Stepped up enforcement of existing labor laws that prohibit such things as phony classifications of workers as temps or contract hires; and the establishment of new rules for government contracting to reward good labor practices and punish scofflaws.
The use of objective external ratings of psychosocial factors is an objective method more specific to individual jobs and locations than externally assigned ratings that use a job exposure matrix based on broad classifications of workers.
In an interview last year, another spokesman, Bruce I. Friedland, said that the agency had "an important interest in proper classification of workers" and that groups sometimes intentionally mischaracterized employees as contractors "to avoid paying employment taxes".
The White House must also commit to new rules on workplace safety, wage and overtime enforcement and proper classification of workers as employees versus independent contractors, a label that employers often misuse to deny benefits.
Take the ride-sharing industry's constant contentious tussle over everything from driver compliance to the classification of workers.
This latest legal drama for Uber is just one of many suits the company now faces throughout the country over the classification of workers as independent contractors and is part of a larger issue facing the company worldwide with competition in Asia, India and legal battles in Europe and elsewhere.
Moreover, the effect of relatedness on labor market outcomes modeled through self-reported binary variables involves some arbitrariness in the classification of workers into two categories related or not, especially since relatedness is perhaps more a matter of degree, than an all-or-none concept.
Moreover, its effect on labor market outcomes modeled through self-reported binary variables involves some arbitrariness in the classification of workers into two categories related or not, especially since relatedness is perhaps more a matter of degree, than an all-or-none concept.
Although the Department of Labor recently released strict guidelines for the classification of workers as independent contractors, the current regulatory framework requires victims to file lawsuits against their employer.
It proposed an automatic classification of workers as independent contractors, granting employee status only if they fit various criteria, such as working for only one employer and being given a uniform.
