{"id":851,"date":"2014-10-07T11:05:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/?p=851"},"modified":"2014-10-07T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:07:12","slug":"whats-the-difference-between-and-employee-and-a-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/2014\/10\/07\/whats-the-difference-between-and-employee-and-a-contractor\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the difference between and employee and a contractor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some employers choose to classify their workers as 1099 contractors instead of as traditional W-2 employees.\u00a0Generally, this is a bad idea that invites all sorts of scrutiny from the taxing authorities (IRS, state, departments of labor, etc.). \u00a0This infographic does a good job of highlighting the differences between employees and contractors and highlights\u00a0the consequences of misclassification.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/workawesome.com\/management\/contract-worker\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-852\" src=\"http:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1099-vs.-ee.jpg\" alt=\"1099 vs. ee\" width=\"600\" height=\"2132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1099-vs.-ee.jpg 636w, https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1099-vs.-ee-288x1024.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderlandgroup.com\/why-employee-vs-independent-contractor-classification-matters-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Employee vs. Independent Contractor Classification Matters [INFOGRAPHIC]<\/a> | Wunderland via <a href=\"http:\/\/workawesome.com\/management\/contract-worker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Work Awesome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some employers choose to classify their workers as 1099 contractors instead of as traditional W-2 employees.\u00a0Generally, this is a bad idea that invites all sorts of scrutiny from the taxing authorities (IRS, state, departments of labor, etc.). \u00a0This infographic does a good job of highlighting the differences between employees and contractors and highlights\u00a0the consequences of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compliance","category-irs","category-payroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unifypayroll.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}