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Originally Posted by Janszoon
The problem is, when you're a contractor, you're considered your own employer and as such can never be technically laid off. It's one of the big reasons, aside from healthcare and other benefits, that corporate America is so in love with trying to keep everyone as contract workers. This way they can avoid paying unemployment tax on people working for them. Just more sleazy behavior from the usual suspects.
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There's also the benefit to corporations that don't require them to provide healthcare to those contracted workers.
Not sure if that's addressed with the 2014 bill though. (Oh derp, you just said this)
The company I work for actually hired on most of our developers as contractors, but after about a year, they were eventually hired full time, because ultimately, the work produced by many of the previous contractors wasn't up to par and those people weren't really dedicated to the company's interests, but just a paycheck, and the thought behind it was that if those that did a good job were hired on full-time, the incentive to dedicate to the company would pay off more in the long run. So far, it has. And personally, I think the full-time position lends itself more to people sorta investing themselves in the company, so really, I think it's more beneficial to the company overall to just hire on salary, instead of trying to save money with contractors that ultimately may or may not really care about the quality of work they're putting into the company, as it isn't likely to support them long term.
Not saying you were a shoddy contractor or anything, but in the context of business, I think companies are better off hiring full time employees for work they do that actually supports the company's business model.
In your case, I obviously think they should have put you on salary, simply because you're Janszoon.
