Stirnerian
7th May 2016, 05:11
So I just found out that the factory down the street I've just started at has deliberately misclassified me as an "independent contractor" for the purposes of taxes, putting me on a 1099 form (wherein I'm required to withhold my own taxes from my paycheck - including a "self-employment tax" that standard W2 workers needn't pay). This is evidently against the law, as I work on the site, for a fixed period of hours per day, using tools provided for by the company - I have no deductibles to itemize.
Not only an I to be double taxed, but I don't qualify for worker's compensation in the event of an on-the-job injury so long as I'm 1099'd. Now, they'be promised to hire me as a paid employee full time, after a ninety day 'probationary period". But my understanding is that this place has a tendency to lay off all but the best workers at the end of that period, and that even many of these don't end up on a W2 (one co-worker has been with the company on a 1099 for seven months, nearly twice as long as this "probationary period", and another for well over a year. Our secretary "forgot" the W2 form in both cases).
On the one hand, this is exploitative as Hell. On the other, well... I badly need to make a good deal of money for a car shortly, and certainly don't intend to remain much longer than that.
For reference, it's a small packaging company that specializes in insecticides and automotive lubricants.
Does anyone else have experience with this sort of situation? Is there any way to turn it to my advantage?
Not only an I to be double taxed, but I don't qualify for worker's compensation in the event of an on-the-job injury so long as I'm 1099'd. Now, they'be promised to hire me as a paid employee full time, after a ninety day 'probationary period". But my understanding is that this place has a tendency to lay off all but the best workers at the end of that period, and that even many of these don't end up on a W2 (one co-worker has been with the company on a 1099 for seven months, nearly twice as long as this "probationary period", and another for well over a year. Our secretary "forgot" the W2 form in both cases).
On the one hand, this is exploitative as Hell. On the other, well... I badly need to make a good deal of money for a car shortly, and certainly don't intend to remain much longer than that.
For reference, it's a small packaging company that specializes in insecticides and automotive lubricants.
Does anyone else have experience with this sort of situation? Is there any way to turn it to my advantage?