Virginia’s Employee Misclassification Law
Were you asked to sign an Independent Contractor Agreement? If so, under Virginia law you may have been misclassified and entitled to damages. In 2020 the Virginia General Assembly passed legislation to deter companies from misclassifying their employees and penalizing employers that misclassified their workers. This legislation was in response to a study in Virginia that revealed that approximately 214,000 Virginia workers were misclassified as independent contractors. A true independent contract is an individual who is in business for himself or herself. They control their work environment, invest their own money and they are not economically dependent on the companies...
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