Feb. 23, 2008
Hired Guns
Employment Column - By Robert W. Wood - The case of Blackwater in Iraq can serve as a model to employers confused about what distinguishes independent contractors from regular employees.
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
Wood LLP
333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601
Phone: (415) 834-0113
Fax: (415) 789-4540
Email: wood@WoodLLP.com
Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
By Robert W. Wood
This article appears on Page 6.
Hiring an independent worker for a one-time project versus hiring employees for whom you take payroll deductions seems black and white. Yet, disputes over misclassification are common. Paying independent contractors skirts employment taxes, pensions, fringe benefits and other liabilities, so the employer's incentives are huge.
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