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Terminated employees may. In an effort to avoid their obligations under the Massachusetts Wage Act (“Wage Act”), many employers now condition the payment of commission on continued employment.  Sometimes those same employers the fire employees to avoid the commissions because the employee was not working when the commission came due.  This may no longer work.…

Leaked Documents Make Clear: Call Them Anything but “Employee” Recent revelations from leaked internal records have provided rare visibility into corporate strategies designed to avoid employee classification. These documents underline a growing national legal battle over employee misclassification, contractor-only labeling, and how far companies will go to justify independent contractor status even when workplace control…