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Are you at risk? The law exists to protect you from exploitation - worst case they'd have to pay your self employment tax (7.5%), give you benefits, etc. right?



some would say that the law exists so that i have to go through some contracting house which eats 50% or more of my wage up front. To me, it seems more like ensuring exploitation than preventing it.


That may be - but in the case he described he has already been paid as a direct contractor.




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