On July 22, SWACCA board member Geoff Furtaw, majority owner of Ceilings, Inc. in Wayne, Pennsylvania, testified before Federal Trade Commission commissioner Alvaro Bedoya to offer a contractor perspective on the anti-competitive impact that employee misclassification has on honest employers in the construction industry at a forum organized by the Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters.
In March 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. This legislation calls for wide-ranging, union-friendly revisions to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
What is Employee Misclassification? How does it affect contractors? What do you need to know in order to ensure you aren’t misclassifying your employees?