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eTrends - Additional States Join the Federal Department of Labor's Initiative to Detect Misclassification of Employees as...

California and Louisiana recently became the twelfth and thirteenth states, respectively, to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the federal Department of Labor ("DOL") as part of the DOL's effort to detect and...more

New Laws Clamp Down On Employee Misclassifications

New Laws Clamp Down On Employee Misclassifications By Frank L. Brunetti on April 6th, 2012 Employers may be paying closer attention to how they classify workers in light of new state statutes that are being adopted in...more

New California Laws Increase Penalties for Employee Misclassification and Wage Theft

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed two employment related bills into law, raising the stakes for employers doing business in California. The two laws, which increase the penalties for employers that wrongly classify...more

Legal Alert: Employee Misclassification Relief?

The IRS recently announced a new "Voluntary Classification Settlement Program" (VCSP), which allows employers to correct worker classification errors and pay significantly reduced penalties, without having to go through...more