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Minn. committee hears testimony on two bills to measure and deter worker misclassification
Summary
The House Workforce Development Committee heard testimony on House Files 2145 and 2146, a pairing of bills that would require regular measurement of worker misclassification and raise penalties to deter employers who misclassify employees as independent contractors.
Representatives and witnesses told the House Workforce Development Finance and Policy Committee on April 1 that worker misclassification is widespread and costly to workers and state programs, and they described two bills intended to measure the problem and strengthen penalties.
Representative Heather Greenman, sponsor of the bills, said the measures come from the attorney general's task force on misclassification and aim to both quantify the scale of misclassification and raise penalties where enforcement has been weak. "They come as a larger set of recommendations," Greenman said, describing the package as intended to "strengthen our efforts to prevent misclassification fraud and the impact it has on our public coffers and on workers."
The first bill before the committee, House File 2145 as amended, would direct state agencies to develop an ongoing estimate of misclassification and its fiscal…
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