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Advocates urge law change to harmonize employee test to curb misclassification
Summary
Legal aid and labor groups urged the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development to align employee-status tests across statutes so misclassified workers can access benefits and enforcement can be more effective.
Jason Salgado, a staff attorney in the employment law unit at Greater Boston Legal Services, told the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development that SB 1338 and HB 2141 would “help address the pervasive issue of employee misclassification, which deprives hundreds of thousands of workers across the Commonwealth fundamental workplace rights.”
The bills would align the employee-status test used for unemployment insurance with the test in wage-and-hour statutes, and because the Paid Family and Medical Leave statute relies on the…
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