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Any companies still offer IC status? - MissIC

Posted: Apr 17, 2013

I am currently full-time employee but miss the flexibility of IC status. Haven't found anyone reputable in my search who still offers IC status. Thanks in advance for any tips.

Look on the job boards. Many companies offer IC, but - me

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even those companies want you to work a schedule rather than have a 24-hour TAT.

Oracle does - I was going to apply to them sm - kelli

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but my computer is too advanced for them - lol. Their site says IC, set your own hours - not specifically TAT or rigid schedule though. I don't know anything else about them, except I actually was nudged to them by a sales ad they had local to me.

Read about them in the archives.... Run away, run away!! - X-OTIer

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kelli - Fairplay

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RUN!

IC - anon

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Are you kidding? It seems like every company is looking for IC status these days. I, myself, do not want IC. It sounds like a pain in the butt.

IC status - Mel

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Almost every company wants ICs now, but they want you to work 2nd or 3rd shift and adhere strictly to that schedule.

True IC = FREEDOM - Long-Time MT

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That is not truly IC and the company can get in a lot of trouble for wording it that way.

Mel - Old Pro

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They could get in a lot of trouble with the Labor Board or the IRS.

My labor department in my state disagrees with this - MT33

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I recently applied for unemployment and had to take classes at my labor department to assist with my job hunt. I asked the worker there specifically about the whole IC thing and if you could be required to work a shift and she showed me the laws, which aren't "clearly" stated, in my opinion, but this is what she told me:

She said that as an IC, basically your shift cannot be dictated to you and you work on a contract basis. She said that a person CAN DEFINITELY say "We need a contractor between 3:00 PM and 11:00 PM and it is up to the IC if they want to accept that contracting position with the stipulations of the contract. The MTSO would not be allowed to change your schedule, without a new contract, or change anything about your contract, but they ARE allowed to state in the contract EXACTLY what they want.

She did said that an IC position is typically thought of as an agreement that usually is for less than a year. She said IF the MTSO is doing anything wrong, it would be more along the lines of giving an indefinite IC term and if a company needed a person for more than a year, then employee status should be considered.

So, reporting a company would have to be more along the lines of stringing an IC along for years on end, rather than saying they made you stick to a schedule. She even said there was a gray area there, as far as how long an IC could remain an IC, but she said a schedule is NOT prohibited by any means.

Just thought I would share.

MT33 - Old Pro

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Also, I might add that when I worked as an IC (many year ago, right after the Civil War), my CPA told me that ideally I should have more than one client. That was one of the things the IRS really looked at.

UScribe - nm

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