[SML] Titles

[billn at peak.org]

>> I don't think titles matter that much. What DOES matter is how tasks are
>> assigned and supervised.
>> If the task work schedule/hours etc are determined by a company employee,
>> then
>> the person assigned the task must be classified as an employee.
>> If a task is assigned and the work schedule/hours are left to the person
>> assigned the task, that person may be classified as either an employee or a
>> contractor.
>
>
> Nope.
>
> If the entity that pays you handles the worker's comp insurance and
> various tax witholdings, you're an Employee.
> If they don't, and leave you to self-insure and self-withhold, you're
> a Subcontractor.

That is what HP thought, until the government came down on them. They had to
quit setting the contractor's schedules/hours and only assign the tasks to be
accomplished. Otherwise, they had to classify the people as employees and pay
worker's comp etc.

> It doesn't matter a sideways fart who calls who a "Director" or who
> assigns and/or supervises. It's all about the money. End of story.

Agreed.

Bill