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Wage Theft
July 9th, 2011
A couple weeks ago, TexasGOPVote blogger, Bob Price, discussed the lack of leadership in this past Texas Legislative Session in the area of wage theft and worker misclassification:"There were many successes in this...
June 3rd, 2011
Should the Texas Legislature revive the debate over mandatory e-Verify bills in this special session of the Texas Legislature?
February 17th, 2011
(VIDEO) No Documents? No Problem! Fox 5 News Goes Undercover on a Tax-Payer Funded Construction Site
What happens when a company gets caught ignoring the law? An investigative news team from Atlanta's Fox 5 News recently found out when it took a hidden camera onto a government-funded public school construction site....
December 19th, 2010
Every day workers are picked up from day labor sites, many times by the same employer. Thousands of people are working in an underground economy where they are paid cash under the table. Still others are simply worked as...
December 9th, 2010
As the economy continues to suffer, government agencies are brainstorming ways to help lower the mounting unemployment levels. Construction Citizen reported today that San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors recently...
October 21st, 2010
The topic of immigration reform has stalled in Congress, but that has not stopped states from taking action to ensure a legal workforce. Worker misclassification is becoming more and more of a problem as underhanded hiring...
September 2nd, 2010
A grocery store owner in Florida will now face prison time for his involvement in a construction company’s scheme to hide their hiring of illegal aliens by paying them in cash.
July 29th, 2010
According to Construction Citizen, a survey was conducted last year of over 4,000 low-wage workers, including illegal immigrants, for the purpose of studying labor violations among low-wage workers in New York,...
June 13th, 2011
There were many successes in this legislative session, but one of these successes illustrates an area where, as Republicans, we failed to provide crucial leadership in the protection of employee rights and fair business...
April 6th, 2011
Employee misclassification is theft and cheating. Misclassification is where an employer hires someone to work for them, but rather than honestly classify them an employee, they misclassify them as an independent contractor...
January 27th, 2011
In a January 19th Houston Chronicle article entitled, "Working: A plea for fair play", L.M. Sixel discusses how due to the economy, many construction companies are resorting to misclassifying their workers as 1099 or...
December 16th, 2010
New York recently passed the Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA). ConstructionCitizen explains that before this law was passed employers caught breaking the laws were only required to pay 25% of back wages. Since the penalty...
October 28th, 2010
The construction industry offers an array of situations and conflicts associated with hiring workers and running a business responsibly and lawfully. More states are taking action to get rid of worker misclassification, and...
September 30th, 2010
Worker misclassification is becoming more and more of a problem as underhanded hiring by some companies harms not just the underpaid workers, but also the employers who play by the rules. Employers who hire legal workers and...
August 26th, 2010
The construction industry offers a panoply of situations and conflicts associated with hiring workers and running a business responsibly and lawfully. Construction Citizen exposes these issues and the companies who...
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