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Alma Adams: “Each of us in this room has a responsibility to ensure that workers are properly treated as employees when in fact they…”

On the recordSeptember 25, 2019
Each of us in this room has a responsibility to ensure that workers are properly treated as employees when in fact they are employees and provided the protections that they are guaranteed under the law.
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Alma Adams
Democratic · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the need for proper worker classification and protections.

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