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"Do US companies typically hire you as a contractor or can you be employed as an employee? I’m asking because contractors usually have no benefits here, includi

"Do US companies typically hire you as a contractor or can you be employed as an employee? I’m asking because contractors usually have no benefits here, including holidays/vacation/sick days, insurance, company-paid parental leave and all other perks so it has a huge impact on effective salary." In the US, if you're a contractor, they can't treat you as an employee. A few years back, Microsoft contractors complained that they did everything an employee did but didn't receive the same benefits. As a result, law(s) were put in place forbidding employers to treat contractors as employees in everything but name. [1] Independent contractors are responsible for all their own benefits. If you work for someplace as an employee that in turn hires you out, you can sometimes get benefits through them but you also share a portion of what the client pays them. If you want vacation and benefits, you might want to consider a remote employee position for a US company. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/businesspropicks-us-findlaw-dont-treat-c/dont-treat-contractors-like-employees-idUSTRE53063S20090401 https://www.reuters.com/article/businesspropicks-us-findlaw-...

philfreo 8y ago
It sounds like the OP is not in the US.
- lazyasciiart 8y ago
  No, but they are specifically asking about the US.
  - philfreo 8y ago
    They specifically asked about working in Canada: > Also, will I need a work visa if I’m to be employed by a US company, even if I work from Canada?
    - lazyasciiart 8y ago
      An employer in the US is bound by US laws on whether the OP is an employee or contractor, no matter where the OP is. (If the OP was defined as an employee then many laws like the ADA would not apply to them, assuming they never travelled to the US office, but Canadian employment laws would, like required notice periods - it's a very complex setup and many employers just won't do it, some smaller companies do it without actually understanding what they're doing.)

philfreo 8y ago

It sounds like the OP is not in the US.

lazyasciiart 8y ago
No, but they are specifically asking about the US.
- philfreo 8y ago
  They specifically asked about working in Canada: > Also, will I need a work visa if I’m to be employed by a US company, even if I work from Canada?
  - lazyasciiart 8y ago
    An employer in the US is bound by US laws on whether the OP is an employee or contractor, no matter where the OP is. (If the OP was defined as an employee then many laws like the ADA would not apply to them, assuming they never travelled to the US office, but Canadian employment laws would, like required notice periods - it's a very complex setup and many employers just won't do it, some smaller companies do it without actually understanding what they're doing.)