Underground Economy Measures Seen as National Trend

A number of states are focusing their sights on the underground economy with the express purpose of bringing it to the surface and stomping on it. Massachusetts, Tennessee and Virginia are among states that have recently stepped up or codified existing efforts to curb such practices as employer misclassification and failure to insure employees for workers’ compensation. “I think that employers and contractors particularly who are abiding by the law are starting to get enough momentum and incentive to try to fight back against people who aren’t abiding by the law and playing...