These two types of Contractor Agreement provided with the guide are in MS Word format (docx) for your own editing as required.īuy online, get your download password immediately and get to work instantly. Tests to establish whether a person is an employee or contractor The contents of the guide Independent Contractors follow Having a signed off Contractors Agreement in place goes a long way to protect the Business. In other words, just because you and the worker decide to call him a contractor, doesn’t mean that the Courts, (and the IRD) will agree that he is one.
Specifically the court can look at all relevant matters, and will not treat the statement that the parties use to describe their relationship as conclusive. Save your invoice in a way you’ll be able to find and recognize it - try Clients Name - Invoice number. If the business loses, and the worker has been an ‘employee’, substantial tax payments may then have to be paid and compensation to the employee for breaking his employment rights. Customize with your company logo, brand colors, and the fonts of your choice. This is a question for the employment courts to determine. The ‘worker’ may then claim they have been an ‘employee’. There have been a number of cases where the relationship between the parties has not been clear and the relationship has then broken down because of some dispute. Lack of clarity can have major tax complications, and could open to the door to an employment dispute. Sometimes the arrangement between the business and the worker is informal, and the parties don’t actually discuss this. It is vital that the business owner is clear whether he is dealing with an employee or a contractor, from the outset.
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