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Do Your Employees and Construction Laborers Belong to You? Depends.

Best Practices Construction Law

Consequently, traditional employment relationship lines are blurred in determining who is the real employer? What is a joint employer? 2016-1 (PDF) , which addresses these type of situations involving joint employment determinations. The analysis focuses on the relationship of the employers to each other.

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#97:  DOL's New Independent Contractor Regulation

NH Construction Law

In an effort to avoid the costs and risks associated with the employment relation, contractors and construction managers often prefer to hire workers as “independent contractors” rather than employees. And occasionally, they misclassify workers as independent contractors when legally they are not – with nasty consequences.