McDonald Hopkins Law Firm Alert -- Focus on Independent Contractor Status Intensifies

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May 05, 2010, 04:42 ET

CLEVELAND, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent legislation introduced in both the U.S. House and Senate makes it imperative to understand how to properly classify workers as employees or independent contractors.

With intensifying focus on the issue of employee misclassification by Congress and federal administrative agencies, such as the Department of Labor, businesses simply cannot afford to delay in examining whether they are appropriately classifying independent contractors.

On April 22, 2010, the Employee Misclassification Prevention Act (H.R. 5107, S. 3254), which would impose new recordkeeping requirements on employers that hire independent contractors, and stricter penalties for misclassification, was introduced in the House and the Senate. Proposed as an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Employee Misclassification Prevention Act would require employers to notify workers of their employment or independent contractor classification and their right to challenge that classification.

For more information, please contact:
Miriam Rosen
[email protected]
248.220.1342

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McDonald Hopkins Alert – Focus on Independent Contractor Status Intensifies

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