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Subject: Re: Re: Sorry - Independent contractors and the law
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Date: Fri, 9-Jan-87 17:04:31 EST
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> ...
> If you don't "*want*" to be an employee of the body shop, do business in a
> manner that suggests you are truly independent, rather than "on-call".
> BTW: a secondary reason for the new law may be to try to protect technical
> people from unreasonable denial of ordinary benefits (e.g. vacation, sick
> leave, retirement plans).  I know of several companies that have used
> "consultants" full time for an extended period, but have not given them
> the benefits of employees.

Let me point out that there are a lot of people who don't *want* some
benefit or another, or who can never use it.  If you are a sole proprietor
you'll never collect Unemployment.  Why should you pay for it?  (To make
matters worse, in some states strikers collect Unemployment for walking off
their jobs.)  What if you don't want to pay for a salesman, and are willing
to take the risks (downtime, loss of work, etc) that come with being in
business for yourself?

The old way seems fairer to me.  Given the suspicious conditions under which
this piece of legislation was pushed through, I can only conclude that
someone was trying to play games with Bedfellow Moynihan.  It's been said
that we have the best legislators that money can buy.

There's something else: this law applies to engineers, and presumably to
PEs.  Licensed Professional Engineers have a responsibility to the public
safety; will this compromise their independence?
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