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When I was younger, I worked for my cousin, a labour job, and he hired some of the local natives. One guy didn't show up after a few days, but his brother did.
by Alan_Dillman 5y ago
When I was younger, I worked for my cousin, a labour job, and he hired some of the local natives. One guy didn't show up after a few days, but his brother did. He was put to work. Then a few days later, a cousin. Now oddly, they each could have had a job, but nope.
So I asked my cousin how he handled it, and he said he hired the one guy, and the cheque would be made out to the first guy, income taxes filed in his name, and he could square up with his relatives, or not.
- mcv 5y agoI guess for a lot of jobs it's not actually that relevant who does it, as long as someone does. In fact, as a freelance contractor, I have the legal right to send a replacement software developer if I'm not available. Of course I won't, because I know very well that in software development this is never going to work, but technically I'm a company with a contract to send someone to do the job, which means my responsibility is to send someone capable of doing it, not to do it myself. In practice of course it's always me, but contracts often specify explicitly that I could send a replacement, in order to make very clear to the tax service that I'm not an employee but a contractor.