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Some contract workers are just full-time employees with less benefits. It's entirely normal to expect long-term employment in that case. They are usually not hi
by gtirloni 4y ago
Some contract workers are just full-time employees with less benefits. It's entirely normal to expect long-term employment in that case. They are usually not hired for adhoc workloads.
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- layer8 4y agoI don’t think that lower cost (if it actually is lower-cost, given that the contracting agencies take a significant cut) is the only reason why the workers were contracted instead of directly employed.
- notatoad 4y agoif you're a contractor who's just a full-time employee with less benefits, you should take that up with your local labour relations board, because that's illegal in almost any jurisdiction. contractors should not expect long-term employment unless they have a contract that specifies that.
- shagie 4y agoConsider... a W2 employee working for a consultancy. That consultancy is responsible for some level of staffing / staff augmentation at one or more companies. Does this still fall in the domain of independent contractor misclassification?
- gtirloni 4y agoThese contractors might not be in a position to do that. I've been such contractor in the past. I was just happy to have the job to pay my bills and didn't feel like getting myself and others fired. The other day I saw a position to work at Google as a contractor. It said undetermined duration.
- notatoad 4y agoyes, but if you're in the position described in this article - a misclassified contractor who no longer has a job, then you've got nothing to lose by reporting that misclassification. if the labour board has enough reports of it to develop a pattern, it can help prevent it from happening in the future.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoYou refer to a legal process for managing this, but this category (wage theft) is the largest category of theft in the US - it's rampant, unchecked, and stacked against the victims. Something being illegal doesn't always have much connection to whether it's happening and what recourse is available.
- mc32 4y agoWage theft happens in both directions. Business trying to pay less and also contractors putting in less time than claimed.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoYes and the latter is a much much much smaller category to the point of irrelevancy
- mc32 4y agoI'm not sure, where are you getting those figures from? I can't find solid figures for either but the rough figures (guesstimates) I come across seem to indicate time theft is a larger problem than wage theft.
- wahnfrieden 4y agoyou can find numbers easily, here's an article from the other week: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/owed-employers-face-little-accountability-for-wage-theft/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/owed-employers-face-little-acco... >According to one estimate from the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute, reported and unreported wage theft could amount to as much as $50 billion per year owed to workers. > >That number dwarfs criminal offenses such as robbery, which accounted for just under $500 million in losses in 2019, according to FBI data. Burglary accounted for about $3 billion in losses that same year, and motor vehicle theft made up about $6 billion. is time theft a $50 billion problem?
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- mixmastamyk 4y agoThe biggest employer of long-term contractors is Uncle Sam.