However, the board held that the company
misclassifying its employees as independent contractors in and of itself "was not a separate violation."
Uber and Lyft Inc have faced lawsuits accusing them of
misclassifying workers as independent contractors.
By
misclassifying workers, unscrupulous contractors can avoid having to account for unemployment taxes and similar costs when they're calculating their bid prices.
There was no performance difference between pathologists and cytotechnologists for LSIL misclassification (P = .28), but cytotechnologists had a significantly higher rate of
misclassifying HSIL as LSIL (1437 of 27 534; 5.2%) than did pathologists (1032 of 25 630; 4.0%; P = .003).
announced the indictment of CRV Precast Constructionand six of its employees for
misclassifying workers as lesser-skilled, underpaying them, and falsifying information about payroll and employees, including a worker who was killed at a company job site.
Families who had private health insurance and households with higher incomes had lower odds of
misclassifying their child at age three.
Louisiana Workforce Commission and members of a statewide task force visited New Orleans-area construction sites Thursday to investigate tips that employers are
misclassifying workers.<br />The sites were not identified in a news release.
For example, in 2017: MetLife The insurance giant paid $50 million to settle a class action suit for
misclassifying long-term disability claims specialists as overtime-exempt salaried employees.
XPO Logistics Cartage, a trucking subsidiary, of XPO Logistics, is being sued in California for allegedly denying drivers wages and benefits by
misclassifying them as independent contractors instead of employees, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Misclassifying employees and independent contractors are getting more costly by the day.