Labor/Employment
Mar. 1, 2017
Independent Contractors
Determining the true status of someone labeled as "independent contractor" is a complex inquiry, and a lot of money often rides on the result
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.
Sharing is good, something we teach our kids. The sharing economy (also known in the common parlance as the "gig economy") has changed or invented industries--think Uber, Lyft, etc.--but the legal and tax issues surrounding worker status have not caught up. For that matter, long before the sharing economy, there were increasing controversies over worker status, and we can't blame that on sharing. Much of the law about worker status is decades and even centuries old, and present day controv...
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