Concerns classification of employees and independent contractors.

This bill amends the definitions related to independent contractors in the workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance laws to: provide for notice of the requirements regarding employee classification at worksites; permit the Department of Labor to enter an employer’s premises for the purposes of investigating compliance with the workers’ compensation and unemployment compensation statutes; permit the Department to obtain an injunction to enforce a stop-work order related to a violation of the workers’ compensation statute; clarify the requirements for consultation regarding debarment of employers that have violated the wage and hour, workers’ compensation, or unemployment compensation statutes; create an Employee Classification Task Force and; provide beneficiaries of public assistance programs with transitional assistance once they begin earning income, in order to enable their transition from public assistance to the workforce.

Carries-over to 2018.

02/09/2017 Read first time. Referred to the House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development.