April 13, 2022 -
City & State Pennsylvania
Carpenters, lawmakers call for crackdown on wage theft, worker misclassification
Sproule pointed to a UC Berkeley Labor Center report that found that 28% of families of construction workers in the state are enrolled in at least one social safety net program. That figure is even larger across the U.S., with 39% of families enrolled in a safety net program – a figure that the report attributed, at least in part, to misclassification.