C&B Footing #1: Employee or Independent Contractor?
As indicated previously, one of the first steps that an organization needs to take is to ensure that individuals who contribute to the attainment of organizational objectives are accurately designated as either “employees” or “ independent contractors.”
As with most areas of HR, there is no immediate answer, no single test to determine the answer to the question of whether an individual is an employee or an independent contractor. To assist in this effort, the DOL has published a fact sheet citing Supreme Court rulings that offer the following seven factors, which will help to appropriately resolve the seemingly perpetual employee/independent contractor conundrum:
The extent to which the services ...
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