employee classification

Misclassification is the practice of incorrectly labeling workers as independent contractors rather than employees.  Because independent contractors are by definition are self-employed, their employers often escape many of their responsibilities under employment, labor, and related tax laws and deprive workers of the protections of those laws. In recent years, the US DOL has been combating Read more

Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has posted guidance for federal contractors to determine which workers are “employees” and which are “independent contractors”, or other non-employee workers. Workers that are “employees” must be included in the contractor’s Affirmative Action Programs (AAP) under Executive Order 11246 (race, color, religion, sex, or national origin), Section 503 Read more