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Judgment & ambiguity · Decisions under uncertainty

A client insists a role you're staffing should be filled as a 1099 contractor, but the day-to-day — set hours, their equipment, close supervision — looks a lot like employment under current tests. What do you decide, and how do you handle the client?

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I don't let the client's preference override the classification test, because the misclassification liability lands on us as much as them, and back taxes and penalties dwarf any single placement fee.

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