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Employers caught cheating

By Extra Extra | 08.23.2012

The News & Observer exposed employers who cheat, misclassifying construction workers to avoid taxes and buying fake workers' compensation policies.

A three-part series, "The Ghost Workers," also showed a state government inept at -- and not interested in -- finding the dishonest businesses. However, Governor Bev Perdue has already ordered reforms.

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