The operations manager for a Montgomery County paving and sealcoating company has been charged with misclassifying employees who worked on two projects in Lansdowne and Springfield Township.
“Worker misclassification is a crime, and — as our previous prosecutions have demonstrated — my office is committed to making sure that business owners understand that there will be consequences for breaking the laws designed to protect our workers,” said Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer in a news release. “Worker misclassification is theft: It deprives the commonwealth of revenue, as well as depriving workers of the protections that our laws are intended to provide.”
Joshua Dallas, 43, North Wales, is facing a single count of violating the Construction Workplace Misclassification Act of 2010, according to online court documents.
The act criminalizes the misclassification of employees as “subcontractors.” The law requires that independent contractors be truly autonomous, with their own businesses and performing tasks for the contractor on an “arm’s-length” basis for contractual payment.
Misclassifying employees allows employers to skirt things like payroll taxes and unemployment compensation contributions.
Dallas, doing business as Monster Paving LLC in Ambler and North Wales, did not return a call for comment placed with the business Wednesday.
According to the release from Stollsteimer’s office:
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