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Is the client Uber or the rider? In my corporate job I work with contractors who do full time for us for months at a time. They were paid by a placement agency, but we are the client.


If the contractors who do full time work are paid by a placement agency to be a full-time employee, that's possibly fraud...

In the case of Uber, it's very clear that the contractors work for Uber, as it's Uber the one that sets the conditions of the job.


Meh... this was a big multinational so I doubt they are committing fraud.

They were paid by the placement agency and the contractor was responsible for all self-employment taxes.


> Meh... this was a big multinational so I doubt they are committing fraud.

I actually think that a big multinational is more likely to commit these kinds of frauds. In fact, a full time employee that works only for one company and who's sent by a placement agency sounds a lot like fake self-employment.




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