If bypassing your independent contractor (IC) compliance program is more of a chore than using it, you’ve hit the sweet spot for hiring managers. While it’s nearly impossible to achieve 100% usage—of anything—clearing up the mysteries of compliance through training and education will go a long way toward adoption. Let’s start with uncovering a couple [...]

You may have seen in the news today that the House passed legislation to remove the expansion of 1099 reporting that was to take effect in 2012. How does this affect your IC compliance/worker classification program? It doesn’t affect your program–directly. The mandate in Section 9006 of the healthcare law would have affected the reporting [...]

As we mentioned in an earlier blog 3 signs that your IC compliance program is working, one informal test is IC talent happiness. At the heart of this is communication. Communication. And more communication. Don’t take this for granted, as yesterday’s unhappy talent could become tomorrow’s whistleblower. Here are a few handy talking points and [...]

You passed an audit—that would be the ultimate test for how well your independent contractor (IC) compliance program is working, right? Well, yes and no. If you were audited and passed the audit, you wouldn’t dismantle your program. The goal here is to achieve continuous compliance. A good compliance program is neither hinged on a [...]