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Employee Misclassification: W-2 Employee or 1099 Independent Contractor?
January 16th, 2017
Contributor: Michael F. Brady
Whether you should be a W-2 employee or 1099 independent contractor is becoming a very common question. In today’s ever-changing economic environment, more and more people are participating in the “gig-economy” – an environmen…
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Multiple State and Federal Agencies Join Forces to Battle Wage Theft
October 13th, 2011
The Labor Department is cracking down on employers who cheat their employees out of wages. In so doing, the Department is entering agreements whereby information will be shared between the Department, several states, and the Internal Revenue Service.…
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Kansas Labor Secretary and Other Legislators Discuss Misclassification, Wage Theft, and Independent Contractors
October 26th, 2010
Jim Garner, Kansas Labor Secretary, spoke to a group in Wichita this past weekend regarding Kansas wage theft and wages that were wrongfully withheld from Kansas workers. Along with Garner, there were several federal and state labor officials as well…
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Department of Labor Increases Wage & Hour Oversight
July 1st, 2010
In her February 2010 presentation of the 2011 budget request for the U.S. Department of Labor, Secretary Hilda L. Solis included funding to hire 90 new investigators for the department’s Wage and Hour Division. These increases will allow the La…
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