Legal Pitfalls Regarding Independent Contractors

Managing workers is a crucial component of your success as a manager. But not all workers are created workers. Some are employees, others are nonemployees, or independent contractors. This is an important distinction, because your company's obligations differ depending upon how workers are classified. Misclassification can result in stiff fines, penalties and back pay and benefit liability. This course will examine the various aspects of hiring and managing independent contractors. You will summarize the hazards of misclassification, learn how to classify workers, and analyze strategies to make sure you don't inadvertently convert independent contractors to employees by your management practices. Thus prepared, you will be able to use independent contractors as needed to meet your organization's staffing needs without concern about legal liabilities from misclassification.

Managers and human resource personnel responsible for adding workers to handle peak periods, special projects or other short-term staffing needs