A fiscal group's finding that New York employers have evaded up to $1 billion a year in workers' compensation premiums has been attacked by an insurance carrier group as false and inaccurate.
At issue is a report by the non-partisan Latham, N.Y.-based Fiscal Policy Institute, which said that a growing number of workers are "misclassified by their employers as independent contractors in an attempt to evade employer responsibility for payroll taxes and social insurance programs."
The study concluded that New York government has failed to do its job in policing the labor market and employer labor practices.
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