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Freelance Workers:  How to Manage Independents Legally and Effectively

Course Description:

The freelance workforce is growing at an astonishing rate.  In fact, more than 30 percent of the nation’s workforce is now made up of independents.  And with the ever-changing economy and global business needs, this number continues to rise.

Many businesses find out the hard way that independents need to be managed differently than their employees.  There are specific legal and regulatory requirements to be adhered to.  One misstep and your organization could face tax penalties, interest, even litigation.

Find out how to effectively and legally manage your independent contractors without compromising their status.  Join CCM and our expert faculty in this invaluable audio conference where you’ll learn:

• Definitions associated with freelance service providers and their status so that you never misrepresent yourself or your company
• Legal requirements for engaging and maintaining a freelance workforce
• Effective and legal techniques for operating day-to-day with independent contractors
• Features and terms necessary to create independent contractor agreements
• How to assess whether a freelance worker is about to cross the line into employee territory
• Risks and rewards in engaging a freelance worker over a staff employee
• Regulatory and legislative developments on working with independent contractors
  

Featured Faculty:

Russell Hollrah, Founding Partner, Hollrah Leyden LLC

Russell A. Hollrah is an "AV" rated attorney with a national practice dedicated to employee-benefits, employment taxes and the specific application of those laws to contingent workers, such as independent contractors and leased employees. He advises firms on structuring relationships with contingent workers, either directly or through a third-party firm. He also defends companies against challenges to their treatment of workers as non-employees. His clients include both the companies for which contingent workers perform services as well as the companies that engage workers and refer or assign them to perform services for other companies. His practice covers both federal and state laws.

Mr. Hollrah is the author of Alternate Staffing (PJC Publishing) and When Leasing is Smarter than Hiring (Thompson Publishing Group). He is a contributing author on contingent-worker issues for the treatise Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel (West Group) and for The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 (ALI-ABA). Mr. Hollrah has published numerous articles on contingent-worker issues and/or employee benefits issues in professional journals, such as the PEO Insider, Journal of Compensation and Benefits, The Tax Executive, The Daily Report for Executives and Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal. He has been quoted on contingent-worker issues in publications such as Newsweek, Investors Business Daily, Purple Squirrel, HR Magazine, IP Magazine, Telecommute Magazine and Tax Notes.

MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE:

We're so confident you'll get what you want out of this conference that we'll refund every penny if you're not completely satisfied. No questions asked! It's 100% risk-free!

Pricing:

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APPROVED FOR RECERTIFICATION CREDIT:

HRCI - Receive 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.

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