Employee or Independent Contractor? Guidelines for Classifying Workers
by Guillermo Escalante, DSC, MBA, ATC, CSCS and Manuel Escalante
Personal Training Quarterly
November 2020
Vol 7, Issue 3
Some positions within the fitness industry can be tricky to classify. This article helps businesses decipher the difference between a hired employee and an independent contracted position.
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References
1. Internal Revenue Service. Independent contractor (self-employed) or employee? Retrieved May 2020 from https://www. irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/independentcontractor- self-employed-or-employee.
2. Kutz, GD. Additional actions are needed to make the worker misclassification initiative with the Department of Labor a success. Treasury.gov/tigta. 2018. Retrieved May 2020 from https://www. treasury.gov/tigta/iereports/2018reports/2018IER002fr.pdf.
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