Comments on: It’s worse than that, really http://shortwoman.com/?p=681 Bridget Magnus Shows the World as Seen from 4'11" Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:42:22 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Carrie http://shortwoman.com/?p=681&cpage=1#comment-6955 Carrie Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:25:09 +0000 http://shortwoman.com/?p=681#comment-6955 Thanks for the link to David Johnson's post. Not too many people talk about contractors. Just one minor clarification, which I realize I should be leaving on Johnson's blog. Sometimes "contractors" are entitled to unemployment benefits if they are W-4 employees with a contract shop. (Perhaps they would be more correctly called contract employees rather than contractors?) However, if they don't work long enough to meet stringent state requirements, or if they are self-employed contractors, they don't get unemployment benefits. I think it's just a matter of semantics on who is considered a contractor. Thanks for the link to David Johnson’s post. Not too many people talk about contractors. Just one minor clarification, which I realize I should be leaving on Johnson’s blog.

Sometimes “contractors” are entitled to unemployment benefits if they are W-4 employees with a contract shop. (Perhaps they would be more correctly called contract employees rather than contractors?) However, if they don’t work long enough to meet stringent state requirements, or if they are self-employed contractors, they don’t get unemployment benefits. I think it’s just a matter of semantics on who is considered a contractor.

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