Author: Nathan S. Gibson
The California “Work Made for Hire” Trap: Your Consultant May Be Your Employee
From Satya Narayan at the Royse Law Firm, PC Most consulting/ contractor agreements will include a boilerplate…
More Thought Leaders Call for Cracking Down on Worker Misclassification
From the Construction Citizen — “There is growing anger across the nation about the about the cancer of…
Study: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City says ACA could lead to more self-employment
From the Memphis Business Journal — “One of the supposed benefits of the Affordable Care Act is that it…
Dishonest contractors cheat their workers
From the The Bellingham Herald — “Fortunately, Washington is one of the states aggressively chasing the cheaters. Olympian reporter…
Are you actually an independent contractor? A rough diagnostic.
From the The Washington Post — “Perhaps the most relevant question in the workplace today — and one…
Texas business, labor interests team to push for reforms
From the News Tribune – ” An unlikely alliance between business and labor advocacy groups is pushing…
Tax cheats prey on immigrants in construction trade
From The Seattle Times — “A nationwide McClatchy investigation found that in Southern states, where there’s a lack…
Our View: Misclassifying employees cheats everyone
From fayobserver.com: Editorial — If your employer announced that your hourly job was being converted to independent-contractor status…
Freelancers increasing in numbers
From delmarvanow— Rhonda Adams writes: “Years ago when I started my own small business, I’d bristle…
Employee misclassification crackdown: DOL shells out millions to fund detection and enforcement
From HR.BLR.com, Jasmin M. Rojas, JD writes “For a while we have been telling you that the…
Can an Independent Contractor share your trade secrets?
From the Oregon Business Report — “A recent case out of Massachusetts held that, as a matter of…
Be careful in just “doing something” about independent contractors
From the Beaufort Observer — “We would suggest that our politicians go slow on “fixing” this problem….
