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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; […]