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	<description>By Massachusetts Employment Lawyer Jack Merrill</description>
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		<title>Misclassifying Workers Can Mean Big, Big Damages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employers who misclassify their workers as independent contractors now have even more to worry about. In August, the state&#8217;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&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts Attacks Independent Contractors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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