Consultation
Intend takes a consultative approach to understand your needs and to ensure that you fully grasp the classification requirements for independent contractor workers. Our consultation objective is to enable you to be knowledgeable regarding:
The differences between hiring a W2 employee and engaging a 1099 independent contractor
How the government and the courts view worker misclassification and the risks it could present to you
How each prospective or existent independent contractor would be viewed by the government in the event of an audit or by a court in the event of a lawsuit
- How adjustments can be made, if applicable and appropriate, for a prospective or existent engagement and/or individual to make them compliant with government regulations and therefore avoid the risk of misclassification
Being uniformed or uneducated is never a defensible position in the event of a government audit or lawsuit regarding worker classification. At the same time, the government itself will say that the determination of whether a worker should be classified as a W2 employee or an independent contractor is a complex and challenging task. They advise anyone engaging independent contractor workers to seek guidance before making determinations. As such, it is imperative that you make informed decisions. Read more --->
Assessment &
Determination
Intend maintains a philosophy that prevention is the optimal approach to independent classification as opposed to correction. However, we are realistic in understanding that the majority of our customers have likely already engaged independent contractors without any kind of assessment or an insufficient assessment. It happens. Therefore our services include both a review and classification recommendation for a company's existent base of independent contractors as well as education and proposed solutions for a strategic program to ensure future potential engagements are analyzed and classification as either independent contractor or employee are determined upfront.
It is never too late to implement and maintain a proper worker classification solution for your independent contractor workforce! Let Intend help you to be pristine...with a strategic solution already in place, so that if you find yourself faced with a government audit or lawsuit you will be prepared with a defense for your decisions.
Strategic Planning
While the majority of consultation in the space of independent contractor compliance is directed at businesses seeking to engage workers, Intend chooses to also offer services directly to those individuals who are being presented with an offer to engage as an independent contractor or who have an interest in leaving the "corporate world" to venture out on their own. We feel that this is an area that is often overlooked in the space of worker classification consulting and Intend wants to offer that important and informative service. Read more -->