New Colorado Law Increases Penalties for Misclassification of Independent Contractors
June 11th, 2009On June 2nd 2009, Colorado Governor, Bill Ritter, signed H.B. 1310 into law. Besides being ordered to pay back taxes and interest, should an employer be found to have willfully misclassified employees, the law imposes a $5,000 fine for each misclassification in first time offences, and $25,000 fines for each subsequent willful misclassification, plus a [...]