Word: bernard
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...It’s interesting to find an area where businesses, government and organized labor are sitting on the same side of the table,” Bernard said...
...report found that when construction employers misclassified workers, they tended to do so for a large part of their workforce. Elaine Bernard, executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program, said that among firms that misclassified workers, an average of 48 percent of employees were treated as independent contractors even though they were actually employees...
According to Bernard, members of the Construction Policy Research Center knew that some employers engaged in the practice. One of the goals of the report was to quantify the extent of the trend...
...Bernard said that the Labor and Worklife Program can now decide to formulate public policy recommendations, focus on similar reports in other industries, or try to analyze the problem in other states. The report recommends that a similar study be performed to analyze state tax returns, currently under the control of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue...
According to Bernard, Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass., wrote a letter to the General Accounting Office asking that it conduct a study examining worker misclassification on a national scale...