Is the DOL Finally Moving on Employer Abuses of Independent Contractor Classifications?

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New Orleans   On March 13th the United States Department of Labor (DOL) is taking comments on the ways and means of an almost $2 million dollar survey of over 10,000 workers nationally that they have proposed as part of their so-called Misclassification Initiative.  What they are trying is to suss out through these interviews is …

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Part of the Point of Minimum Wage Increases is the Bump up from Wage Compression

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New Orleans    In the continued dumbing down of the Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal as it builds its platform for the far right, a new low was reached in the discussion of minimum wages as Richard Berman, now touting for the Center for Union Facts (sic).  In a piece entitled, “Why Unions Want a …

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