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Tom Perez: When you call a worker an independent contractor when he or she is, in fact, an employee, that is fraudulent.

On the recordMarch 15, 2016
When you call a worker an independent contractor when he or she is, in fact, an employee, that is fraudulent.
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Tom Perez

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Perez discusses the issue of worker misclassification as a form of fraud.

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