Can You Be Denied Workers’ Compensation because Your Employer Pays You Off the Books?
Queens Workers’ Compensation Attorneys
You have been working a job, but getting paid under the table, so to speak. You get injured on that job—now you can’t work at all! If you were a documented employee of the company, you’d be able to file a workers’ compensation claim, but what can you do now? Are you simply out of luck? The answer is NO!
Under New York workers’ compensation laws, it does not matter if you were an employee of the company—accordingly, your employer cannot deny you the right to file a workers’ compensation claim because you were paid off the books, and cannot deny your claim because you were not an employee. The New York workers’ compensation laws only require that you meet two conditions:
13 January 2017
No Comments
