HRM 3420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Independent Contractor, Parental Leave

• School: York University
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM 3420
• Professor: Chris Sweeney

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Employment law mandatory assignment 1: under common law is sita an employee or an independent. Under common law sita is an independent contractor or in other words, she is a self-employed worker engaged by a principal to perform specific work. The explanation of my answer includes the following. Sita signed a contract saying she is an independent contractor, referencing the class textbook, one of the principal characterization of an independent contractor is that a clearly written contract should confirm the individual"s independent contractor status (filsinger, 80). Second, sita filed her tax return as an independent contractor. Independent contractors remit their own statutory deductions and taxes (filsinger, 77). Third, rita is also an independent contractor because she chooses her hours of work, and this also differentiates an employee from an independent contractor, as the organization should avoid setting hours of work to independent contractors (filsinger, 80).