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Brought to you by the hard working families of the
Carpenters' District Council of Kansas City and Vicinity

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Q: As owners or managers why should we care?
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Miller/The World Herald |
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When you sign a contract with a General Contractor (GC)
or a Construction Manager (CM) you may be unaware
that it hires subcontractors who misclassify its workers, but ignorance is no
excuse for allowing the law to be broken on your premises. By not having
researched the practices of your GC/CM and its Subcontractors, Owners may open
themselves to financial liabilities and risk intense scrutiny by the public and
media. If, on the other hand, you knowingly allow a contractor to engage
in fraud in the construction/renovation of your project, you are subsidizing
potentially illegal conduct and could be benefiting from savings made by a
criminal offense.
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"The misclassification of
workers is a fleecing of the state and negatively impacts all interested
parties. Our community should be outraged at the blatant cheating of
the greedy companies who abuse workers by inviting them to build, but
refusing them the benefits they are entitled to. We, therefore, call
for a new revolution of justice for immigrant workers and a legislative
solution to this problem."
Edward Leahy
(Coordinator, Immigrants Rights Network of Iowa-Nebraska) |

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