Sentence examples for misclassification of employees from inspiring English sources

An issue that Mishel calls "low-hanging fruit" is the misclassification of employees.

This Tuesday, the Department of Labor announced an agreement with New Hampshire to reduce misclassification of employees in that state.

The debate over the misclassification of employees — treating them as independent contractors instead of employees — pervades the modern fissured workplace.

The misclassification of employees pervades the modern economy and can be devastating to workers in the form of lost wages and little bargaining power.

The issue of joint employment is similar in nature to misclassification of employees as independent contractors, on which Weil's office issued similar guidance back in July.

It takes several forms: failure to pay overtime, violating minimum wage laws, the misclassification of employees as independent contractors, illegal deductions in pay and forcing employees to work off the clock.

They include eviscerating the National Labor Relations Board's Obama-era effort to crack down on misclassifications of employees as "independent contractors," which deprives those workers of protections against workplace abuses.

The report does however see the possibility for such apps to be abused and recommends "sham contracting provisions in the Fair Work Act, to deter misclassification of legitimate employees as independent contractors".

Nearly as pernicious is wage theft's close cousin -- misclassification of an employee as an independent contractor.

A Maine study showed the state lost $18 to $36 million each year in income tax revenues between 1999 and 2002 because of employee misclassification.

With the federal government continuing to face record deficits, it's time for the IRS to get serious about the practice of employee misclassification, which will continue to add billions in tax losses if left unchecked, thus causing widespread damage to our nation's economy.