Bill Text: IN SB0289 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Reporting on worker misclassification. Requires the department of state revenue, the state department of labor, the worker's compensation board of Indiana, and the department of workforce development to report before November 1 of each year for three years, beginning November 1, 2019, to the interim study committee on employment and labor for the immediately preceding state fiscal year: (1) the number of employers that each department or the board determined during the immediately preceding state fiscal year improperly classified at least one worker as an independent contractor; (2) the total number of improperly classified workers employed by those employers; (3) the department's or board's calculation of actual revenue not collected or the additional costs to the state that the department or board attributes to the improperly classified workers; (4) the amount of the penalties and interest assessed against those employers by each department or the board, and the amount of the penalties and interest assessed that has been collected; and (5) the classification criteria used by the department to classify workers. Requires that the reports include only information in the form of aggregate statistics and not include information that can be used to identify specific employers or workers. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying the topic of uniformity in definitions across the Indiana Code for the terms "employee" and "independent contractor".
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-02-26 - First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions [SB0289 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2019-SB0289-Introduced.pdf
Bill Title: Reporting on worker misclassification. Requires the department of state revenue, the state department of labor, the worker's compensation board of Indiana, and the department of workforce development to report before November 1 of each year for three years, beginning November 1, 2019, to the interim study committee on employment and labor for the immediately preceding state fiscal year: (1) the number of employers that each department or the board determined during the immediately preceding state fiscal year improperly classified at least one worker as an independent contractor; (2) the total number of improperly classified workers employed by those employers; (3) the department's or board's calculation of actual revenue not collected or the additional costs to the state that the department or board attributes to the improperly classified workers; (4) the amount of the penalties and interest assessed against those employers by each department or the board, and the amount of the penalties and interest assessed that has been collected; and (5) the classification criteria used by the department to classify workers. Requires that the reports include only information in the form of aggregate statistics and not include information that can be used to identify specific employers or workers. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee the task of studying the topic of uniformity in definitions across the Indiana Code for the terms "employee" and "independent contractor".
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-02-26 - First reading: referred to Committee on Employment, Labor and Pensions [SB0289 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2019-SB0289-Introduced.pdf
