Misclassification Horror Stories: What Goes Wrong, What It Costs, and How to Get Compliance Right
Every HR and People Ops leader has heard the horror stories: a contractor files for unemployment, an audit uncovers years of misclassification, or a fast-growing company suddenly owes hundreds of thousands in back taxes and legal fees. Most organizations don't think it'll happen to them… until it does.
The good news? Most of these problems are preventable.
In this session, we'll walk through real misclassification horror stories, break down what these mistakes actually cost, and answer the question nobody wants to sit with: who at your company actually owns contingent workforce compliance? Spoiler: it's probably falling through the cracks between HR, Legal, Procurement, Operations, and Finance. You'll leave with a practical framework to self-audit your contingent workforce program before a regulator does it for you.
After this session, you'll walk away with:
The most common misclassification mistakes that lead to audits and legal risk, and how to spot them before they cost you.
A clear picture of what getting it wrong actually costs: back pay, penalties, legal exposure, and the operational fallout.
A framework for figuring out who at your company should own contingent workforce compliance (and why it's probably unclear right now).
Early warning signs that your contingent workforce program has outgrown its legacy systems.
Best practices for building scalable workforce compliance processes and workflows that mitigate risk while supporting business growth.
Live Giveaway information to come!
Webinar Sponsored by Worksuite
Worksuite helps People Operations and HR teams to hire, manage and pay their global contingent workforce, compliantly. Freelancers, contractors, and specialized talent working across borders often don't fit neatly into a traditional HRIS. Worksuite brings automated onboarding, smart worker classification, global payments, and contract lifecycle management into a single platform, so teams can scale their extended workforce quickly while mitigating compliance risk. Worksuite dramatically reduces administrative burden for your global talent and teams, so they can stay focused on the actual work.