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Be careful that you don't misclassify a worker as an independent contractor.

"In 90 percent of the companies they investigate, they do find at least some that misclassify workers."

(The mothers were more likely to misclassify younger children than older ones.)

Unfortunately, farmers aren't the only employers who misclassify employees as "independent" subcontractors.

It makes it a felony to intentionally misclassify employees as independent contractors.

But sometimes Cecelia seemed to misclassify persons.

Yiruma's musical style is easy to misclassify.

Did somebody misclassify it?

The reason for this is that the majority of individuals possess medium voices and therefore this approach is less likely to misclassify or damage the voice.

Companies, for example, might hire workers off the books, with no compensation insurance, or misclassify them in low-risk occupations that are less expensive to insure, he said.

Efforts by the UK Border Agency to identify fake defectors have not always been successful and have also been known to misclassify actual defectors as fake ones.

The Ultrareach website notes that "Some anti-virus software companies misclassify Ultrasurf as a malware or Trojan because Ultrasurf encrypts the communications and circumvents internet censorship."

Gov. Eliot Spitzer is planning to step up enforcement against thousands of companies that illegally misclassify workers as independent contractors to cheat on taxes and skimp on employee benefits, the state labor commissioner said yesterday.

Based on the September 2 response, "Commission staff considers that Rogers' ITMPs could potentially continue to misclassify time-sensitive traffic such as other online games and therefore this could be affecting those games.

Many temporary agencies that place home health aides in homes misclassify the workers as independent contractors, exempting these workers from minimum-wage and unemployment-compensation protections and preventing them from receiving Social Security benefits when they are ready to retire or become disabled themselves.

One is the discovery of the Burgess fossils in 1909 by a powerful American geologist, Charles Doolittle Walcott, the longtime head of the Smithsonian Institution, who then proceeded to misunderstand and misclassify the thousands of ancient animals he had found.

Insurers, doctors, lawyers, individuals hired to encourage employees to file false claims, employers who intentionally misclassify employees or engage in other deceptive practices to avoid paying full premiums, and any other person who takes part in workers' compensation fraud will be investigated and prosecuted.

Across the country we see legitimate employers unable to compete with unscrupulous contractors who misclassify their employees as subcontractors to avoid paying taxes, provide no health insurance, offer no meaningful training opportunities, pay substandard wages, ignore even minimal safety regulations, violate workers' legal rights to organize, and defy building codes and specifications.

"Common sense tells you that low-wage workers are employees, but we're increasingly seeing that employers misclassify them as independent contractors, whether it's janitors, day laborers, delivery drivers or bathroom attendants," said Annette Bernhardt, deputy director of the poverty program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.