Already one of the toughest states on regulating IC Compliance, the State of New York’s Assembly created a new, tougher IC compliance bill (A11649) on July 8, 2010. The proposed law would: Significantly increase the penalties for “knowing and intentional” independent contractor misclassification. Establish a private right of action for an individual misclassified as an [...]
According to an article in Telegram.com, based in Worcester, Massachusetts, the state attorney general’s office announced FedEx Ground agreed to pay Massachusetts $3 million to settle claims the company misclassified its drivers as independent contractors. The article reports that, “The attorney general said the company had gained an unfair competitive advantage by classifying the drivers [...]
Want a new job? The IRS is hiring and advertising job opportunities on YouTube! WASHINGTON DC-The Internal Revenue Service announced this week it is using YouTube to market IRS job openings for revenue agents, revenue officers, criminal investigation special agents, financial analysts and economists about employment opportunities at the IRS. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said, [...]
Last time I critiqued a website article published by a contingent work force vender company. This is part 2 of that series. The website article cited a University of Arizona study but failed to provide full information about the study and then gave bad advice if you employ highly skilled professionals. I have analyzed this [...]
I recently read an article on a website that gave bad advice for those who employ highly skilled professionals-especially independent contractors. The flawed article was based on a University of Arizona study. I won’t cite the author, or organization, publishing the web article; however, we tracked down the original University of Arizona study and a [...]
One more domestic story from my stay-at-home week: the neighbor’s kid takes a freelance job. I was recently home for a week watching television, sleeping and fighting off a bug. I was feeling better later in the week and took a walk around the neighborhood. As I passed my neighbor’s house, their 23 year old [...]
I was recently home with the flu, and couldn’t sleep during the day, so I watched some daytime television. I saw many TV commercials encouraging workers-both IC’s and employees-to sue the companies that feed them. If you spend your daytime hours working, you may not realize there are packs of predators stalking the underemployed, the [...]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is employing a quieter, and possibly more effective, approach to going after illegal immigrants employed in the United States. Instead of conducting high-profile police raids of factories, farms and other businesses, ICE auditors are showing up to audit companies’ books. In just the first two weeks of [...]
WASHINGTON-The IRS National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina E. Olson, released her July report to Congress that identifies the important issues to the IRS during the coming fiscal year. The report expresses concern about IRS funding, particularly: IRS funding for taxpayer education and assistance, IRS funding to implement health care reform, IRS funding for the new information reporting [...]
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