Employers Avoid WC Premiums for more than 500,000

Pennsylvania employers may be avoiding workers’ compensation premiums on more than 500,000 workers in their state by misclassifying them as independent contractors. A wage theft study by the Temple University Beasley School of Law’s Center for Social Justice released in June estimates 9% of the state’s workers are classified as independent contractors when they should be wage earners. With approximately 6,070,000 people employed in Pennsylvania in April, according to Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry statistics, this would mean 546,300 of them should not be cons...