Author: Richard Reibstein Esq.

On October 13, 2010, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed into law the Construction Workplace Misclassification Act, joining a growing number of states that have targeted an industry where misclassification of employees as...

Last week, a federal district court judge assigned to an independent contractor misclassification case granted class certification to workers who were treated as independent contractors but allegedly were misclassified as...

On September 30, 2010, the U.S. Department of Labor released its Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2011 – 2016.  Among the goals listed by Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is to identify and deter the misclassification of...

In response to the increasing popularity of my blog here at www.www.independentcontractorcompliance.com, I have added an RSS feed and subscription by e-mail feature.   The publisher of this blog monitors important legal and...

Last week, there were 53 views of one of my blog posts, Fair Playing Field Act of 2010: The End of ‘Safe Harbor’ for Businesses Misclassifying Employees as Independent Contractors.  As a result, I have updated the blog to...

In the absence of federal legislation addressing the issue of misclassification of employees as independent contractors, no less than 16 states have passed their own laws seeking to curtail misclassification of employees as...

As noted in the preceding blog post on this site (see below), Congress has now introduced in this session of Congress two bills seeking to crack down on misclassification of employees as independend contractors: the Employee...

In the past three years, 16 states have passed legislation seeking to curtail the misuse of the independent contractor classification. Yet, despite congressional studies finding that misclassification contributes to the federal...

New York has a new law seeking to curtail in the building and construction industry the practice of misclassifying employees as independent contractors (ICs).  On August 27, 2010, Governor Paterson signed into law the New York...

The federal court judge assigned to over 60 cases involving FedEx Ground drivers who claim they have been misclassified as independent contractors instead of employees has issued his second key ruling in the case.  In contrast...