The Contractor

Independent contractors are usually people considered to be lawyers, doctors, accountants, or even auctioneers who in a manner of speaking are professionals who present their services to the general public. Still an individual can be considered an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or exact only the effect of the work and not the outcome of the performance. An employee would be defined as an individual who works either full or part-time under an agreement of employment, either oral or written, and has recognized rights and duties in an organization. Still, what really matters is if an employer has the authorization to control the particulars on the services provided to an independent contractor verses an employee.…

Independent contractors are self-employed workers engaged by a principal to perform specific task. According to the general rule “an individual is an independent contractor if his or her employer has the right to control the results of the work but not the means and methods of accomplishing it”. (Megerdomian, n.d.) Consultants, freelancers, entrepreneurs and business owners are other terms that could be used to describe an independent contractor. Independent contractors and employees are two…

Independent Contractor Agreement This Independent Contractor Agreement ("Agreement") is made and entered into by and between, ___("Contractor") and___(“Client”). 1. Engagement of Services. Contractor will provide Client with the following services: 2. Compensation. _ Client shall pay Contractor $ _____ per hour due on or before the first Friday following the end of any week in which Contractor performs services for Company. OR ___Client shall pay Contractor a flat fee of $______…

Which is Best: 1099 Independent Contractor or W2 Wages It's a common conundrum; which is best 1099 contractor or being a W2 employee. Many business give their employees an opportunity to make this decision for themselves. If you ever find yourself in this situation, be sure to consider the following information. Taxes The first thing you should look at is the taxes you will be asked to pay. As a 1099 Independent Contractor, you will be forced to pay both Social Security and Medicare. This comes…

GNCB Consulting Engineers, P.C. in Old Saybrook, CT provides geotechnical and structural engineering and historic preservation consultation to a variety of public and private agencies, and contractors. With over 50 years of engineering experience, GNCBs professional services are always completed in a timely and efficient manner. In addition to the undergraduate and graduate training our professions go through, many of the staff at GNCB attends a variety of workshops and seminars to keep in the…

professional roofing contractors. Besides, calling a professional roofing company to fix a simple leaking roof could end up being quite costly. However, hiring a professional roofing contractor does have its advantages. For instance, do you think you will be able to handle the job if it turns out to be much larger than what you first thought? A professional will be able to. Before tearing into the roof right away, there are steps that need to be taken. First, you need to check the weather. Do…

awarded using Sealed Bidding procedures. PBPs differ from the more traditional progress payments based on costs because these contract financing payments are made on the basis of the contractor’s achievement of objective, quantifiably measurable events, results or accomplishments that are defined and valued in the contract prior to performance. Performance-based contracts are paid based on the success of specific, measurable events or accomplishments that are defined within the terms and…

Do you want your kids to be protected from bloodthirsty insurgents from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria? I’m guessing you do that's why we need to let Private Military Contractors continue to protect us in foreign countries. We need to let them continue their life threatening work to help us stay safe and defend some of America's most valuable assets. First off let’s just start by saying that Private Military Contractors (PMCs) are very highly trained. They are hand picked in most security companies.…

Many tend to be former special forces operators, or former military. How do you compare the costs of a private contractor and a public member of the military? How do you factor in the thousands of hours of training on the US governments dime that paid for this operator, and to utilize those skills in the civilian sector, just to come back and work as a subcontractor for the same government? Yes, the costs to deploy the contractor for the specific mission is cheaper, but you spent government…

However this particular soldier does not report back to the U.S. military at the end of the day, instead he reports to a black ops corporation called Black Water, who has had these same dramatic instances occur repeatedly while hired by the U.S. army. Nevertheless, do the Iraqi citizens care, do they distinguish between a contractor and a true American soldier? How can they differentiate when one of their loved ones has become a victim to someone they only recognize as American. Today our…