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HOME - FACTS - TABLES - VIDEOS - INFOGRAPHICS - AGENCIES - RESEARCH <br />Juravich, Tom; Essie Ablaysky; and Jake Williams. (2015). The Epidemic of Wage Theft in Residential <br />Construction in Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts Amherst. <br />Kev Finding: Due to the transient nature of undocumented workers, many working in the construction industry never <br />receive the wages they are owed. <br />Alexander, Charlotte and Arthi Prasad. (2014). "Bottom -Up Workplace Enforcement: An Empirical <br />Analysis." Indiana Law Journal, 89: 1069-1131. <br />Kev Finding: As worker power and stability decreases, so does their legal knowledge and ability to contest labor violations <br />in the courts. 43% of workers who experience a workplace problem with their employer did not pursue the claim in court <br />for fear of retaliation or lack of confidence in their claim. 43% of workers who did make a formal experienced retaliation <br />in the form of termination, suspension, decreases in hours, or reporting the worker to law enforcement agencies. <br />Government Accountability Office (GAO). ( ). Employee Misclassification: Improved Coordination, <br />Outreach, and Targeting Could Better Ensure Detection and Prevention. <br />Kev Finding: Misclassification of workers enables other forms of wage theft, such as minimum wage theft. These minimum <br />wage violations are investigated under the Fair Labor Standards Act, which does not address misclassification. <br />Government Accountability Office (GAO). (2007). Employee Misclassification: Improved Outreach Could <br />Help Ensure Proper Worker Classification. <br />Kev Finding: A majority of independent contractors in construction were white, middle-aged men with at least some <br />college education. These demographic characteristics did not prevent them from being misclassified. <br />Ruckelshaus, Catherine. ( ). Providing Fairness to Workers Who Have Been Misclassified as <br />Independent Contractors. National Employment Law Project (NELP). Testimony before the Subcommittee <br />on Workforce Protections of the Committee on Education on Labor in the U.S. House of Representatives. <br />Kev Finding: Research estimates that misclassification rates in the construction industry could be as high as 40%. Later <br />research corroborated that misclassification was a growing practice at the time of this testimony. <br />7 <br />