Both the House and Senate Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations Committees have rejected additional funding for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to address worker misclassification initiatives.
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and its partners in the Coalition to Promote Independent Entrepreneurs spearheaded efforts to urge lawmakers to deny the funding request for an additional $10 million in the 2016 fiscal budget to allow the DOL to implement worker misclassification enforcement and detection activities.
Yearlong Investigation Reveals Widespread Worker Misclassification in Construction Industry
NAHB claims the programs could create an incentive for a state workforce agency to find misclassification where none exists and have a detrimental impact on companies that do business with independent contractors.
North Carolina Considering Law to Stop Worker Misclassification
The House and Senate lawmakers said state workforce agencies should instead focus on educating their employees about the laws regarding independent contractors rather than appropriating money incentivizing a worker misclassification finding.
(more on the committee's rejection of more funds for the DOL program...)
