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Article: Baltimore County, Md., Mislabeled-Workers Lawsuit Brings New Wave of Cases.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- May 6, 2003
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By Stephanie Hanes, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 6--The lawsuit brought recently by four Baltimore County workers, who claim they have been denied benefits and job security by being labeled "part-time" employees, is one of a small, but growing, number of cases against employers alleged to have "mislabeled" or "misclassified" workers.
Over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in the number of employees considered "part-time," "consultants," "temporary," or some other name differentiating them from regular workers, according to labor lawyers and worker advocates.
Many of those workers have situations ...