Have you properly classified your consultants and can you prove you did it right? Are you taking the proper precautions to insure your independent contractors are really IC’s? Do you have an expert on staff, or will someone from your HR or Finance team be assigned with the unpleasant task of fighting the professionals who [...]
WASHINGTON DC-President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2012 includes a record $240 million for initiatives specifically related to enforcing IC Compliance and misclassification of workers. This proposed funding is consistent with his often stated goals of closing tax gap loopholes and tightening enforcement on the misclassification of independent contractors. Politicians, at all levels of [...]
One of the most common mistakes I see clients make is to turn a consultant, who qualifies and truly wants to be independent contractor, into an employee by controlling every part of the project. The consultant often starts out looking like an independent contractor. The client wants to engage an individual who has a unique [...]
WASHINGTON-The Internal Revenue Service recently announced that interest rates for the calendar quarter beginning April 1, 2011 will increase by 1%. The new rates will be: 4% for overpayments (credits or refunds), 3% in the case of a corporation; 4% for underpayments (assessments and liabilities); 6% for large corporate underpayments; and 1½% for the portion [...]
I’d like to share a case study about a company that engaged a team of consultants to launch a nationwide marketing and communications effort with both its customers and internally with its own staff. The objective was to upgrade the company’s image with customers and to improve communications with its own employees. No one in [...]
AUGUSTA, Maine — Governor Paul LePage recently abolished the Maine task force focusing on employee misclassifications. In addition, Governor LePage is submitting legislation that would use the federal definition of an employee for all state purposes, eliminating the different standards now in use for different state programs. LePage stated during an interview. “The whole point [...]
By now you have most likely heard of FedEx Ground’s decade long legal struggle to determine if their drivers are employees or independent contractors. The case began in California, as a class action law suit for overtime, expenses, benefits and other employee entitlements [Estrada v. FedEx Ground Package Sys. Inc., 64 Cal. Rptr. 3d 327 [...]
I recently read an interesting article entitled, “How setting goals creates happy workers,” by Maynard Brusman, accountingWEB. The author believes the more detail you give workers on what to do, and how to do it, the better. The article advises, “…intelligent managers increase worker productivity by helping their employees develop goals resulting in improved workplace [...]
Not sure where this economy is taking us, but need a highly qualified professional for a critical, limited term project? It can be smart to bring in an independent contractor, but only if done right. Everyone agrees the business world and the economy are uncertain. Yet, work must still get done and companies need to [...]
The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled [Cortés-Rivera v. Dep't of Corr. & Rehab. of Commonw. of P.R. (First Circuit No. 09-1858 Nov. 16, 2010)] that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) does not apply to IC’s and that a medical doctor was an IC. But wait! Read on: The court hinted that it could [...]
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