Category: Independent Contractor Agreements
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Washington Passes a Near-Total Ban on Noncompetes
As many of you may know, for years noncompete agreements in Washington have been on life support. With each legislative update, lawmakers would narrow these provisions and/or make them harder to…Read more
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Seattle Forces Uber Eats to Pay $15 Million to 16,000 Contractors for Violations of Independent Contractor Protection Ordinances
The City of Seattle recently concluded its first investigations under its independent contractor protection ordinances, resulting in Uber Eats being fined an unprecedented $15 million for pay violations impacting 16,000 independent…Read more
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When Your Contract with a Higher-Tier Contractor Puts You at Risk
An unfortunate reality with independent contractor law compliance is that compliance is not solely dependent on what you do. Rather, a significant part of compliance depends on what independent contractors and…Read more
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Hiring Out-of-State Independent Contractors? Know Before You Go!
So your business is growing and you want to expand to hire independent contractors out of state. Will it be easier to do this in other states? Will it be more…Read more
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Independent Contractor Records You Absolutely Must Keep
Perhaps the single-most greatest indicator of a business’s ability to pass an independent contractor audit by Department of Labor & Industries (L&I), Employment Security Department (ESD), or the IRS, is the…Read more
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Noncompetes in Independent Contractor Agreements? Tread carefully…
Businesses that hire independent contractors invariably seek to include noncompete provisions in their independent contractor agreements. The noncompete has particular appeal in the independent contractor setting because true independent contractors are,…Read more
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Making Sense of a Test That Sometimes Doesn’t Make Sense
“I know it doesn’t make sense, but here is what the law says, and how it is interpreted by auditors.”
In some form or another, this statement inevitably winds its way into…Read more
LATEST POSTS
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Washington Passes a Near-Total Ban on Noncompetes
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Seattle Forces Uber Eats to Pay $15 Million to 16,000 Contractors for Violations of Independent Contractor Protection Ordinances
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When Your Contract with a Higher-Tier Contractor Puts You at Risk
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Hiring Out-of-State Independent Contractors? Know Before You Go!
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Independent Contractor Records You Absolutely Must Keep
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Noncompetes in Independent Contractor Agreements? Tread carefully…
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Making Sense of a Test That Sometimes Doesn’t Make Sense