by Sayema Hameed Employers should be careful when treating workers as individual contractors. Effective January 1, 2012, California now prohibits “willful misclassification” of individuals as independent contractors. The “willful misclassification” of an individual is defined as “avoiding employee status for an individual by voluntarily and knowingly misclassifying that individual as an independent contractor.”
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