How can you tell if a worker is a 1099 contractor or W2 employee?
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How can you tell if a worker is a 1099 contractor or W2 employee?
We are enlisting people to help connect us with other business owners in their sphere of influence and want to pay them when one of their contacts become a client. Are they 1099 or W2? We will provide general training to each individual who the company is, what we do, ideas for talking with these contacts, why we are unique and can help their contacts, etc. But its truly up to the individual on how they go about connecting us, how they prospect, and so on. They will use their own tools computer, phone, printer, etc. There are no assigned hours or set schedule. It’s whenever they want and there are no
Asked on December 21, 2017 under Employment Labor Law, Arizona
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SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 6 years ago | Contributor
Based on what you write, they would be 1099 contractors: while you provide training, if you do not instruct or direct them in how to do the job, do not set hours or a required location from where they must work, do not provide their toos or equipment, etc., they are sufficiently independent of you to qualify as independent contractors, which is the proper term for a "1099 contractor"; you are not exercising the degree of control over them as is typically exercised by an employer over its employees.
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