Topic
Payroll Fraud
8 published works
Immigration Blog
FinCEN Joint Advisory Adds Financial-Activity Dimension to Employer Worksite Compliance Considerations
By Michael H. Neifach, Amy L. Peck
Takeaways New joint FinCEN advisory identifies payroll, tax, and labor-contractor practices that may be associated with unauthorized employment and related fraud. Employers using staffing companies and labor contractors should evaluate…
Michigan Employment Law Advisor
Michigan’s Attorney General Announces New Unit to Crack Down on Payroll Fraud
By Jason Shinn
On April 22, 2019, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced she will establish a Payroll Fraud Enforcement Unit to investigate wage theft. More specifically, this Unit will also investigate the…
Real Estate Advisor Law Blog
New Wage Theft Ordinance In Cincinnati
By John Hands
Cincinnati City Council recently enacted an anti-wage theft and payroll fraud ordinance designed to protect workers and insure that those doing business with the City pay their legal share of…
Hiring To Firing Law Blog
Virginia Governor Creates Task Force on Worker Misclassification and Payroll Fraud
By Troutman Pepper Locke's Labor + Employment Group
The following information was sent out yesterday (August 21, 2014) by members of our Labor & Employment team in Virginia. If you have employees in Virginia, you need to read…
Wage & Hour Law Update
Virginia Governor Signs Executive Order Establishing Joint Task Force on Worker Misclassification and Payroll Fraud
Virginia employers may see more robust worker misclassification enforcement and enhanced cooperation between state agencies with respect to misclassification issues in the near future. Following the lead of the federal…
Independent Contractor Misclassification & Compliance
With No Fanfare, Congress Re-Introduces the Payroll Fraud Prevention Act of 2014 to Crack Down on Independent Contractor Misclassification
By Richard Reibstein Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C.
Most bills in Congress dealing with independent contractor misclassification are introduced with a great deal of fanfare. But not so with the Payroll Fraud Prevention Act of 2014, which was…
Independent Contractor Misclassification & Compliance
Senate Re-Loads on Independent Contractor Misclassification: New Bill Characterizes Misclassification as “Payroll Fraud”
By Richard Reibstein Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C.
On Friday, April 8, 2011, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced the Payroll Fraud Prevention Act (S. 770), a trimmed-down version of the Employee Misclassification…
Legal Profession Blog
Tickets To A Disbarment
The Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board has recommended permanant disbarment of a former judge of the Civil District Court of Orleans Parish. The judge had been convicted of conspiracy to commit…