Are you an Employee or a Contractor? The ATO have designed a tool that you can use to work out if your worker is an employee or contractor for tax and super purposes. The decision tool is for use by businesses that engage and pay a worker. To access the tool click here. What this […]
Are you sure your ‘independent contractors’ are not ‘employees’?
Are you sure your ‘independent contractors’ are not ‘employees’? Two recent cases have highlighted how important the distinction between ‘independent contractors’ and ‘employees’ is: in one case, it was held that a plumbing business did not meet its superannuation guarantee obligations in respect of five of its plumbers that it had treated as independent contractors; […]
