To: elmatador who wrote (24524 ) 12/16/2007 10:28:26 AM From: Frank A. Coluccio Respond to Yes, you did state 2017, my error. But my reply stands. perma lancers**), independent and autonomous appendages to larger entities whose stock in trade is their fleetness of foot, and an underworld made up of gray law and commercial nebulae.de facto employers. As you know, this could be a double-edged sword. Many workers prefer contracting roles --despite the fact that many categories of such workers, depending on industry classification, fit IRS common-law definitions as 9-to-5 "full-time employees" -- due to the favorable tax implications of contracting, where some would actually prefer the "security" (Cough! ) of permanent, long-term employment, which many of them, for all practical purposes, fulfill anyway. Due to their sometimes dubious tax status, however, like the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about, these issues tend to remain off the radar and largely unspoken, since "common-law" employee status is something that both they and the hiring parties want to avoid due to the threat of negative tax implications for individual freelancers (and subcontractors), and the longer-term liabilities of health care and pensions (including government-mandated "set-asides") that "employer" organizations would face.]
