{"id":74921,"date":"2016-11-06T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74921"},"modified":"2016-11-05T22:58:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T02:58:31","slug":"construction-trades-council-files-misclassification-complaint-with-dol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=74921","title":{"rendered":"Construction Trades Council files misclassification complaint with DOL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Submitted by Pat Costello<\/em><\/p>\n

The Central & Northern New York Building Construction Trades Council filed a complaint Oct. 20 with the state Department of Labor in reference to the Claudia Tenney for Congress Campaign\u2019s misclassification of workers. According to a recent article in Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, Tenney listed her Campaign\u00a0Manager, Ryan Rhodes, and her Campaign Spokesman, Hannah Andrews, as independent contractors instead\u00a0of staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cMisclassification is a\u00a0serious problem in New York state and in our workforce today that needs to be addressed,” said Buiding and Construction Trades Council area representative Patrick Costello. “The 23 local union\u00a0affiliates of our Trade Council travel to Albany each and every year to talk to our Assembly and Senate members to explain the devastating effects to our members, our contractors and New York state that misclassification causes.<\/p>\n

“Claudia Tenney has heard from us on numerous occasions the detrimental effect that\u00a0misclassification has on our workforce. By claiming that her staff is actually contractors, Assemblywoman\u00a0Tenney avoids paying into the Unemployment Insurance, Workers Compensation and Social Security systems\u00a0that other business owners across New York contribute to.”<\/p>\n

According to the Cornell University study released in 2007 entitled, \u201cThe Case of Worker Misclassification in\u00a0New York State,\u201d hundreds of thousands of dollars every year are lost from the very systems that are designed\u00a0to help worker people and their families. Tenney claims she will fight for small businesses and working families in our area, but she is avoiding the responsibilities that those small business owners face every day and she is depriving her staff of the safety net that all other workers (if their employer is adhering to\u00a0the law) in New York state enjoy.<\/p>\n

We have asked the state Department of Labor to investigate the Claudia Tenney for Congress\u00a0campaigns as we believe that the misclassification of workers is a violation of the Labor Law.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted by Pat Costello The Central & Northern New York Building Construction Trades Council filed a complaint Oct. 20 with the state Department of Labor in reference to the Claudia Tenney for Congress Campaign\u2019s misclassification of workers. According to a recent article in Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, Tenney listed her Campaign\u00a0Manager, Ryan Rhodes, and her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23811,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-jup","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MCCPaperLogo.jpg?fit=800%2C678&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}