ADMS 3420 Lecture Notes - Independent Contractor, Liberty Mutual, Canlii
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He has signed a contract with them saying he is an independent contractor. He files his tax return stating he is an independent contractor. He owns his own taxi and can choose to work when he likes. He has the company name on the taxi and wears a uniform. He gets his fares through the company dispatcher. One night, ahmed has his throat cut by a passenger. Amazingly, he survives but is not able to work for a number of months. The company sends him a nice fruit basket but says that since he cannot work they will be terminating his contract. Ahmed only works for one taxi company. Ahmed does not have any other client and had no legal entitlement to his customers. That is, the customers he drives around belongs to the taxi company. Independent contractors would usually have more than one client they work for.