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worker classification
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Wage and Hour Defense Blog
Proposed Legislation May Expand the Scope of the Computer Employee Exemption
By Douglas Weiner and Meg Thering On October 20, 2011, the Computer Professionals Update Act (“the CPU Act”) – one of the first potential pieces of good news for employers…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
IRS Establishes a Voluntary Classification Settlement Program for Employers Who Have Misclassified Workers
On September 21, the Internal Revenue Service announced the launch of the Voluntary Classification Settlement Program (VCSP), a new voluntary and low cost program to allow employers to reclassify as…
Wage and Hour Defense Blog
New California Laws Increase Penalties for Employee Misclassification and Wage Theft
by Michael S. Kun, Eric A. Cook, and Jennifer A. Goldman California Governor Jerry Brown has signed two employment-related bills into law, raising the stakes for employers doing business in…
Corporate & Securities Law Blog
IRS Launches Voluntary Worker Reclassification Program
On September 21, 2011, the IRS announced (in Announcement 2011-64) a new program that will allow employers to resolve their worker classification problems at a relatively low cost. This new…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Seyfarth Defeats Class Certification for WinCo Foods In Assistant Store Manager Misclassification Case
Co-authored by Fred Sanderson, Brandon McKelvey, and Ferry Lopez Judge Breyer of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California refused to certify a proposed class of assistant…
Personal Injury Law Journal
Are Independent Contractors Entitled to Workers’ Compensation Benefits?
Most people employed as independent contractors assume they have no protections under the law. Hoever, just because someone may meet the criteria of an independent contractor for Internal Revenue purposes,…
Wage & Hour Law Update
Court Rejects Estimator Plaintiff’s Attempt To Obtain Summary Judgment That She Was Misclassified As An Exempt Administrative Employee
Most commonly, where an employee challenges his or her classification by his or her employer as exempt in an FLSA lawsuit, the defendant seeks summary judgment (opposed by plaintiff), arguing…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
Governor Brown Signs Significant New Employment Laws
By Nick Schnermann & Gregg A. Fisch On October 9, 2011, California Governor Jerry Brown finally addressed the bulk of the labor and employment-related bills passed by the California state…
Independent Contractor Misclassification & Compliance
Congress Reintroduces the “Employee Misclassification Prevention Act,” Which Would Create a Federal Offense for Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors
By Richard Reibstein Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C.
Following on the heels of aggressive new measures announced by the U.S. Department of Labor and IRS in the past month and the recent enactment of a new California law to crack down…
California Employment Law
New Penalties for Misclassifying California Employees as Independent Contractors
Thanks to Kent Bradbury for the following post: Among several employment-related bills signed into law by Governor Brown recently was SB 459, a bill that significantly raised the stakes in…