Worker Classification – Are Your Workers Subcontractors or Employees

There is no question that overtime pay is expensive, around the country, companies have been caught by the Department of Labor using questionable worker classification methods and tried all sorts of things to avoid paying workers overtime. If you have read past columns I have written, you know that most laborers classified as ‘subcontractors’ are…

There is often a tendency in the green industries to hire people as laborers and state that the worker is a ‘subcontractor’ or ‘independent contractor’. I don’t know when or where this trend started, but the labels are often used inappropriately by business owners and contractors. I have heard from many people that they believe…