New Jersey is cracking down on worker misclassification, and the effort stands to drive home the financial risks facing employers who wrongly label employees as independent contractors, some practitioners said.
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In a suit in U.S. District Court in Newark, Robert Asaro-Angelo, commissioner of the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development, accused STG Logistics Inc. and its subsidiaries of falsely categorizing more than 300 truck drivers as independent contractors.