{"id":133,"date":"2017-07-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2017-08-14T19:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T19:01:20","slug":"how-to-know-if-a-worker-is-an-employee-or-independent-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/how-to-know-if-a-worker-is-an-employee-or-independent-contractor\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Know if a Worker is an Employee or Independent Contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a business owner in the Boise, ID area, it&rsquo;s important to know if you are working with an independent contractor or if you have an employee according to the Idaho rules.&nbsp; The difference can affect your business in a variety of ways.&nbsp; Idaho State uses a control test to help determine if the working relationship is employee-employer or an independent contractor.&nbsp; The &ldquo;Right to Control Test&rdquo; has four main areas to help guide you through the distinction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Control by the business.&nbsp; If the business requires set hours of work, provides training, integrates the worker into the business&rsquo;s main mode of operation, or has a requirement of&nbsp;reports on a schedule, then it is an employee-employer relationship.&nbsp; If the worker provides their service to other companies and the general public, it&rsquo;s likely they are an independent contractor.<\/li>\n<li>Method of payment.&nbsp; If payment is made by regular intervals &#8211; hour, week, day, month or other intervals, the relationship is employee-employer.&nbsp; If the worker could have a profit or loss as a direct result of their service, then they are considered an independent contractor.<\/li>\n<li>Necessary equipment.&nbsp; If the company provides the equipment necessary, then it is seen as an employee-employer relationship.&nbsp; An independent contractor makes the equipment investment.<\/li>\n<li>In an employee-employer relationship, there is an ongoing relationship focused around the work.&nbsp; If it is not an employee, the relationship can be ended without liability by either party at any time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A &ldquo;yes&rdquo; to any of these items can mean the relationship is employee-employer.&nbsp; Use the &ldquo;Right to Control Test&rdquo; as a guide.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Fuhriman Insurance Agency<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Fuhriman Insurance Agency provides commercial insurance to companies in the Boise, ID area.&nbsp; Contact a Fuhriman agent today to review your business insurance needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a business owner in the Boise, ID area, it&rsquo;s important to know if you are working with an independent contractor or if you have an employee according to the Idaho rules.&nbsp; The difference can affect your business in a variety of ways.&nbsp; Idaho State uses a control test to help determine if the working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,33],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-insurance","tag-boise-id","tag-fuhriman-insurance-agency"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuremeplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}