There are lots of laws over if your employee is a contractor or full-time. Many, _many_ companies butt heads with local labor boards who decide that a given emp

There are lots of laws over if your employee is a contractor or full-time. Many, _many_ companies butt heads with local labor boards who decide that a given employee is actually full-time and thus entitled to a bunch of different protections. Many regulations either don't exist in Europe or are under-enforced. For instance, Germany did not outlaw insider trading until ~2003. There's a strong chance that an American hiring a contractor in, say, Romania will simply not be prosecutable while an American hiring a contractor in America will be. There's some legal term of art for this that I can't recall off-hand.