HR Success Stories: Employee Classification
By Stacey Payne • HR Business Partner
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Situation
When a new client came on board with Alcott HR, I noticed a number of individuals were classified as Independent Contractors.
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Task
During a meeting with the client, I inquired about what sorts of tasks these employees were performing. After the inquiry, I convinced the client to perform a full review of their employee classifications in
order to determine if any Independent Contractors should be changed to W2 employees.
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Action
I provided the client with information regarding the IRS/federal/NYS
guidelines surrounding the classification of employees as Independent Contractors in order to help them make their determination.
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Result
After reviewing the information the client determined that they had misclassified employees as independent contractors and converted them to on call w-2 employees.