Tag: Federal IC Laws and Bills

On December 12. 2012, Rep. Erik Paulsen (R. Minn.) introduced a bill that bears many similarities to a bill introduced earlier this year by 33 Democrats.  The Independent Contractor Tax Fairness and Simplification Act (H.R....

On March 1, 2012, 33 co-sponsors in the House introduced the Fair Playing Field Act of 2012 (H.R. 4123), a bill that appears to be identical to the Fair Playing Field Act of 2010 (H.R. 6128), which was never acted upon by...

Following on the heels of aggressive new measures announced by the U.S. Department of Labor and IRS in the past month and the recent enactment of a new California law to crack down on willful misclassification of employees as...

On Friday, April 8, 2011, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced the Payroll Fraud Prevention Act (S. 770), a trimmed-down version of the Employee Misclassification...

Listening to President Obama address issues of national importance during his 2011 State of the Union address last night, anyone familiar with independent contractor compliance and 1099 issues could not help but notice two...

Commentary: As noted previously in prior articles and postings on this blog, Congress is poised to pass a labor and a tax bill that will discourage businesses from misclassifying employees as independent contractors and end the...

In the absence of federal legislation addressing the issue of misclassification of employees as independent contractors, no less than 16 states have passed their own laws seeking to curtail misclassification of employees as...

As noted in the preceding blog post on this site (see below), Congress has now introduced in this session of Congress two bills seeking to crack down on misclassification of employees as independend contractors: the Employee...

In the past three years, 16 states have passed legislation seeking to curtail the misuse of the independent contractor classification. Yet, despite congressional studies finding that misclassification contributes to the federal...

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) wasted no time in holding a hearing on the “Employee Misclassification Prevention Act” (EMPA), which was introduced jointly on April 22, 2010 by the Senate (S....