Labor protections are in place to ensure workers can support themselves. To subvert those regulations pushes quality of life down for a populace.
Walmart is guilty of this to a lesser extent, as while they categorize their workers properly, they pay them so little that they have company-provided documentation on how to collect social benefits to supplement their income, which means we're subsidizing Walmart's labor costs directly.
This will be less of a problem as the minimum wage rises across the country, and companies are held accountable for proper worker classification.
Walmart is guilty of this to a lesser extent, as while they categorize their workers properly, they pay them so little that they have company-provided documentation on how to collect social benefits to supplement their income, which means we're subsidizing Walmart's labor costs directly.
This will be less of a problem as the minimum wage rises across the country, and companies are held accountable for proper worker classification.