Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has signed into law a bill allowing the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development to impose penalties on construction companies that avoid paying workers’ compensation premiums by misclassifying workers. The bill’s sponsor, State Senator Bill Ketron, said the Department needed specific authority to address workers’ compensation premium fraud and avoidance. The measure (S.B. 833), signed on May 16, 2013, adds the following provision (Section 50-6-411) to state law, effective July 1, 2013:
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