“It wasn’t something I did arbitrarily. When I read Takahashi-sensei’s source material, I thought, ‘This character has that kind of personality so they might do this kind of thing.’ For example: Joey is the hot-blooded ‘big bro’ character -> He might like martial arts -> I suppose he likes wrestling -> I bet he likes Inoki -> The chin! That’s how it went.” — Takahiro Kagami, 2012.
Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.
Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.
This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.
The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.
This one text exchange could:
- Get you back pay for the full duration you’ve worked there, to bring you up to the compensation that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back compensation for lost benefits that an employee would have gotten
- Get you back pay for the additional self-employment taxes the company should have covered
- Get the company to pay back taxes to the government
- Get the company to hire everyone who performed a similar role, or face further penalties and fines
- A win would encourage the rest of their missclassified workers to sue for the same, or give them leverage to demand a better deal
If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.
Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:
You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:
Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.
States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.
A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.
Fantastic addition
u know whats wild. everyone on here like 20 and when i first joined everyone was like 14 15. u ask anybody n they been here for years. nobody new on here. staff locked the doors n were all Stuck Inside
Tag your current age and how old you were when you joined Tumblr
Can y’all reblog this post and reveal what year you started using tumblr in the tags? I’m super curious.
For me it was 2011.
Boy heroically puts horse conditioner in princess’s hair without a moment’s hesitation
I’ve never seen so much discourse about horse-and-people hair products but please know that your comments have absolutely made my day
I know why "prefered pronouns" and "prefered name" were retired from the vocabulary (it's way more than a matter of preference) but in retrospect it feels like a successful psyop to make transphobes sound absolutely incoherent.
Griping about people having "prefered pronouns": legible, clearly indicates what they have a problem with (trans people existing and being respected), makes you a huge unreasonable asshole but one whose grievances can at least be parsed for some kind of meaning.
Griping about people just having "pronouns": Incoherent, you are angry at a part of speech. Old man yells at cloud moment. Your hatred is so blinding that you can't hide that you have no idea what you're talking about and you look like a child throwing a tantrum except a child has probably been in an english class recently enough to know what a pronoun is.
Anyway we should do this with more stuff. Let's just call transitioning puberty exclusively until we get right wing grifters saying that puberty is unnatural and if you've gone through it you're a freak on their shitty little youtube channels.
my cat fell asleep on the dashboard and is having lovely dreams right now
lipo, face lift, buccal fat removal, botox, and rhinoplasty
this is a negative post btw. let these rodents and dogs be content and fat!
Celtic Mythological Creatures:
- Fucked up little guy
- Fucked up horse
- Woman (dead)
- Woman (Wet)
- Woman (dead) (wet)
- WIZARD
List of available genders
Family Guy Kin
✦If you’re also Lois Griffin don’t follow
✦Stewies DON’T interact
✦Looking for my Peter ♡
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Howdy! I know this is a joke post here, but i’d like to use this moment to promote my family guy crossover art and PeteLois appreciation twitter! If any fg fans out of there wish to check it out or give me a follow feel free to do so! :3 i always follow back
about to be in prison for 20+ years so i might as well bump this one more time
emergency-broadcast-system
What the fuck happened here on this day
god what a fucking classic post
post of the decade contender
That 'free speech absolutism' is working great, Elon. Add it to your Twitter Files.
Watch every Zelink fanartist ignore Link being shorter than Zelda for the second game in a row
Me when I'm in denial
There's something wrong with you people I think
when ppl’s “body positive/plus size” art just starts and ends with a big ass
that one post with all the edgy anime boys in a therapy waiting room but it's lain, rei, madoka, anthy, etc.
I put more effort into this than I'd like to admit lol
Congrats to shinji for transitioning
