Dangers of Employee Misclassification

Three of our California-based Drinker Biddle lawyers from our California HR team provided a complimentary one-hour webinar on issues that may impact California employers if their employees are misclassified.

Presented by:
Pascal Benyamini, Partner, Labor & Employment
Katrina Veldkamp, Associate, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Moderated by:
Summer Conley, Partner, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation

Topics discussed during the one hour webinar included:

• The different factors used by government agencies and courts in determining independent contractor classification
• Best practices in classifying workers as independent contractors
• Proper worker classifications under retirement and group health plans
• Employer responsibility for offering health coverage to full-time employees when using staffing firms
• Consequences of misclassifying workers