- Redefine employment per the “suffer or permit” test and specify that the “suffer or permit” test defines employment very broadly;
- Define workers in certain highly fissured industries as the legal employees of firms who contract with them individually for labor, and/or the joint employees of user firms who obtain their labor through subcontracting or franchising arrangements;
- Develop concrete guidance for courts to apply in other industries, or direct an expert agency to do the same; and
- Place the burden of proof on the party seeking to avoid employment status and implement other procedural and remedial reforms.
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