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Mar 2023
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The high price of misclassification (wit...

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A new report from the Economic Policy Institute found that anywhere from 10 to 30 percent of employers are essentially stealing thousands of dollars from their workers every year by misclassifying them as independent contractors. In addition to lower pay, those misclassified workers are also deprived of employer-provided benefits like health care and labor rights like basic safety regulations. Returning guest Heidi Shierholz walks us through the report and explains how to figure out if your employer is stealing from you by classifying you as an independent contractor.


Heidi Shierholz is the president of the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that uses the power of its research on economic trends and on the impact of economic policies to advance reforms that serve working people, deliver racial justice, and guarantee gender equity.


Twitter: @hshierholz


The economic costs of worker misclassification https://www.epi.org/publication/cost-of-misclassification 


Shared security, shared growth https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/37/shared-security-shared-growth 


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