When the U.S. Department of Labor announced its “Misclassification Initiative” in September 2011, it was clear that employers utilizing independent contractors were doing so at their own peril. At a meeting of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, representatives from both the Connecticut Department of Labor and the Hartford office of the federal Labor Department confirmed that as the one-year anniversary of their partnership agreement approaches, both agencies are continuing to increase their joint efforts to identify and penalize those employers who misclassify even inadvertently employees as independent contractors.
Misclassification Initiative
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