you probably heard the term independent contractor are you an employee or are
you an independent contractor it's important to to categorize that
accurately and there's a line at which I can't tell you where a quartz going to
go the IRS has their policies on a Department of Labor there are a lot of
factors in the relationship that accord or the IRS or the Department of Labor
will look at an independent contractor is not protected from certain things
like anti-discrimination the end of the jobs you got fired you're not going to
get unemployment insurance an independent contractor is a
self-employed professional who exercises independent judgment controls the
methods by which they work is more autonomy in an independent contractors
you're not an employee you're sort of your own boss as opposed to an employee
an employee generally follows the directions of their boss you, hey; your
going to come in at eight-thirty you're going to leave at five be at your desk
you're going to do this, that, here's your priorities of what you're going to do
here details of what you're going to do and again this whole kind of balancing
thing where you look at some factors might way towards someone being
appropriately categorized as an independent contractor some factors
might mitigate the other way that they're really an employee; your nanny is
an employee the guy you hired to paint the kids room is an independent
contractor to just to give you a sense of who's what so they look at behavioral
control do you record you set their hours they look at financial control you
buy in your own equipment do it does the
employer give you the equipment and they look at the whole nature of the
relationship so when you see your contract it may say independent
contractor you might question that if it's really not again the the risks are
more for the employer the financial risks are more for the employer if they
miss characterize the relationship literally you can sort of use a smell
test and this will give you what mitigates which way the some of the
factors might might be balanced you know if an independent contractor controls
what when and how the work is to be performed okay I pick the color but the
painter decides how he's going to paint the room whereas who provides the
instruments when I go to work in the morning my employer provides my computer
paper all the Pens I can steal everything else so these are some of the
factors that again courts or the IRS would look at to determine whether
someone is is an employee or an independent contractor again benefits
provided insurance vacation stick time sort of indicate that someone's an
employee as opposed to you know you don't give an independent contractor
vacation