Groups Hope First-Ever Misclassification Prosecution Means New Scrutiny on Construction

Labor leaders and a contractors' group said Tuesday that officials may finally be making progress in cracking down on the widespread practice misclassification of construction workers — a decade after Pennsylvania lawmakers approved a law for that purpose. “Yes, it's time to clean up contracting in Pennsylvania. It's a whole underground economy that's going on,” said Frank Sirianni, president of the Pennsylvania State Building and Construction Trades Council. Sirianni was reacting to news that the district attorney in Delaware County, near Phil...