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Workers advocates press committee to harmonize employee definitions across state laws
Summary
Greater Boston Legal Services, the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and other witnesses urged the committee to align the employee-status tests in unemployment, wage-and-hour and PFML statutes to reduce misclassification and improve access to benefits.
A coalition of legal aid and labor organizations told the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development that small but consequential wording differences across state statutes create legal uncertainty and deny eligible workers benefits.
Jason Salgado, a staff attorney in the employment law unit at Greater Boston Legal Services, testified in support of S.1338 and H.2141, which he said would align the employee-status test used by the Department of Unemployment Assistance with the nearly identical test in the…
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