Category Archives: Independent Contractors

Misclassifying Workers Can Mean Big, Big Damages

September 23, 2009 – 2:06 pm

Employers who misclassify their workers as independent contractors now have even more to worry about. In August, the state’s highest court made clear they could pay huge damages for this transgression of the law, even if they merely made an honest mistake. In a majority opinion, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court concluded that employers can’t [...]

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Massachusetts Attacks Independent Contractors

March 15, 2009 – 9:37 am

In 2004, Massachusetts changed its independent contractor law in a rather radical way. The amendment essentially banned the use of independent contractors in the Commonwealth, regardless whether workers and employers agreed that the arrangement made good business sense. The new law so narrowly defined who could and couldn’t be an independent contractor that most observers [...]

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