New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has created a task force to crack down on an “epidemic” of employers who misclassify employees to avoid providing workers' compensation and other benefits by listing workers as private contractors or paying them off the books.
The governor's announcement of the executive order creating a Joint Enforcement Task Force was made at a press conference with State Labor Commissioner Patricia Smith and labor leaders.
Gov. Spitzer's announcement noted that misclassified employees can be deprived not only of workers' comp but unemployment insurance, Social Security, income tax-withholding, temporary disability insurance, minimum wage and overtime pay.
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