Demiraiakian, who does furniture assembly and handyman work, says she was once tasked with what was supposed to be a small tree stump removal only to discover it would require much more powerful tools than she'd brought -- information that she says wasn't relayed to her until she arrived at the job.
An industry under scrutinyThe inquiry comes at a time when there's been growing scrutiny by local labor enforcers over how workers are being treated by companies. A report this week from the Economic Policy Institute's Terri Gerstein found a growing number of district attorneys and attorneys general are taking on employers over issues ranging from worker misclassification to wage theft.
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