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>To classify someone as an independent contractor, the court said, businesses must show that the worker is free from the control and direction of the employer;
by nemothekid 7y ago
>To classify someone as an independent contractor, the court said, businesses must show that the worker is free from the control and direction of the employer; performs work that is outside the hirer’s core business; and customarily engages in “an independently established trade, occupation or business.”
This is a bit unrelated, but how would this affect software contractors?
- bdcravens 7y agoIt will impact fewer software contractors than we'd think: many contractors really aren't. You're a W2 employee of the placing agency, and they are sending you, their employee, to their client.
- pwagland 7y agoInteresting analogy. At least in the Netherlands, unless you have 3 or 4 contracts in a year, you are not really considered a contractor anyway, you are considered an employee. If you stay contracting more than 50% at a company for more than 2 years, you are not a consultant, you are just an expensive employee. I know that in Australia 20 years ago, there was a big push to make everyone contractors, to get rid of employee obligations, the rules were changed to be similar to NL now, but I don't know what has happened in the meantime.