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Report Link Independent Contractors: A Dying Breed?Shaw Valenza LLP - July 03, 2007 The employer-employee relationship is fraught with legal obligations: workers’ compensation, complex wage and hour rules, paid and unpaid leaves of absence, payroll filings, sexual harassment training, benefits, etc. At times, employers may wish to engage temporary services without some of the entanglements associated with adding employees. Workers, too, may wish to avoid obligations such as tax withholding and exclusive employment relationships. For these and other reasons, employers and workers enter into “independent contractor” relationships. Report Link Independent Contractor Status: Useful In The Right Circumstances.Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. - January 19, 2006 Many companies have discovered the administrative and other advantages of engaging the services of certain individuals as independent contractors rather than employees. The independent contractor relationship is definitively less complicated. Independent contractors are not covered under company benefit plans. Payroll withholdings and deductions do not apply. They are not entitled to statutory benefits and protections afforded employees such as unemployment compensation and worker's compensation. Independent contractors in most instances cannot take advantage of the various anti-discrimination protections of the federal, state and local human rights laws, and normally cannot bring an action against the company for the familiar employment-related legal claims. Report Link Independent Contractors And Work For Hire: Are You Getting What You Pay For?Helms Mulliss & Wicker - May 27, 2005 Any time a company hires an independent contractor to perform services that will create any form of “intellectual property” – such as developing a software program, designing a website, preparing a marketing brochure, or writing a customer manual – the company should have a contract in place that secures its ownership in the work that the contractor produces. Report Link Contractors versus Employees: The Important Legal Differences.
GigaLaw.com - March 01, 2001 Discusses the legal differences between independent contractors and employees, including issues relating to taxes and copyright ownership. Report Link INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR POLICY.SUNY Stony Brook - (No Date) University policy on independent contractors, which contains discussion on the destinction between an employee and independent contractor. Links to information on: Definition Used to Determine Relationship; Guidelines for Classifying Workers; Guidelines for Engaging Independent Contractors; and IRS Factors of the “Common Law Test”.
Report Link Independent Contractor or Employee.Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - (No Date) The tax law covering independent contractors is very complicated. Before you can determine how to treat payments you make for services, you must first know the business relationship that exists between you and the person performing the services. Report Link Independent Contractors vs. Employees.Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - (No Date) Are you or your help independent consultants or employees? Before you can know how to treat payments you make for services, you must first know the business relationship that exists between you and the person performing the services.
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ArticlesFound: 7 ArticlesNO SUBTOPICSEmployment Law Seminars
PREVENTING HARASSMENT AND OTHER EEO ISSUES AT WORK: IT'S ALL ABOUT RESPECT (AB1825 COMPLIANCE)
Sacramento
March 12, 2008 Shaw Valenza LLPUNDERSTANDING YOUR ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES AT WORK (AB 1234 COMPLIANCE)Sacramento
May 13, 2008 Shaw Valenza LLPPreventing Wage/Hour Class Actions.Online
May 13, 2008 LittlerHOW TO CONDUCT EFFECTIVE INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONSSacramento
May 13, 2008 Shaw Valenza LLPHow to Stay Union FreeLas Vegas
2008-5-13 Jackson Lewis LLPConducting Effective Investigations of Employment Claims: Essential Skills for Internal InvestigatorsHouston
May 13, 2008 Littler2008 Public Sexual Harassment Training for supervisors and managers.Universal City
May 13, 2008 Ballard RosenbergSHRM Morris County Monthly Legal UpdateFlorham Park
2008-5-14 SHRM Morris County ChapterThe Connecticut Sexual and Other Harassment Education and Training in the Workplace ActHartford
2008-5-14 Jackson Lewis LLPDigital Dangers: Recent E-Discovery Developments and TrendsLas Vegas
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