Harvard Report Urges States to Crack Down on Worker Misclassification

With the Trump administration rolling back enforcement of labor laws, including those protecting workers from misclassification, states must step up with aggressive, coordinated and proactive tactics, says a new report by researchers at Harvard University Law School. That means instead of relying on complaints from workers, state agencies should target problem industries on a regular basis and make sweeps to investigate lapsed workers' compensation policies and underreported payrolls, said the report by Mark Erlich and Terri Gerstein. “As a result of this retreat at the fe...