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Re: Going freelance?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gene Kim-Eng)
Mon Oct 9 17:38:27 2017
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Second on this. The single biggest issue I've run into working freelance
is clients who think that 1099 is just a sneaky way to get labor they
can direct the same as regular employees without having to pay the costs
associated with hiring. Compared to that, it has been a breeze getting
information from government agencies about what one has to do to be a
1099 independent contractor (in CA and OR, pretty much nothing, so long
as you are an individual using your own name rather than a DBA name and
aren't hiring anyone).
Gene Kim-Eng
On 10/9/2017 12:32 PM, Michael Wyland wrote:
> The good news, to the extent there is good news, is that once a determination that an employee-employer relationship, it's generally the employer that is in trouble, not the employee. The bad news, in my experience, is that it's sometimes impossible to explain this to client representatives who effectively seek to control *how* a project is performed.
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