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Using LLC’s (independent contractors) as field crews.
Didn’t want to flame the new guy, as he seems nice, and he is just the kind of fellow that needs to be on this forum. But as quoted from that thread, I thought there might be something for us to learn, and something I wanted to ask in a new thread.Welcome, please share more about Strand AE using LLC’s for field crews, I have never heard of this before. Do they have LS’s on staff that oversee your work?
@k-huerth Yes, they have one they keep on staff to oversee all projects and sign off.
That should go in a new thread.
As it is, I have to be pretty deliberate to feel that I am actually having direct supervision of my direct hire field crews. I cannot imagine having X number of LLC’s (that might hire their own crews???) under me and still feel like the work was done under my direct supervision. But that may be a personal issue or limitation of my abilities.
I am more interested in the legality. If someone is under my direct supervision, can they also be in independent contractor? (Which I assume is for tax purposes?) Seems like a contradiction, and leaving aside the the board of registration, the IRS seems like they might have a say in the whole situation? There were tons of “contractors” at Microsoft that turned out to be employees according to the government.
I know that this sort of thing occurs in my state, and I saw some VERY bad work as a result, with a PLS in some foreign state with a WA PLS signing work (ALTA, of course) done by someone in WA. Not saying that this is always the case, but I very much got the sense that the guy signing the work just signed the work. Of course, I have made mistakes of my own, so a single case isn’t proof.
Is anyone a PLS where this model works? I am sure all sorts of us outside the system have a lot of skepticism, but curious if anyone here works as a professional in that situation?
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