Re: FWD: question about contracting w/o agencies

["Mysti Rubert" <mystilou -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

I've never encountered a company who would put a contractor on health 
insurance. It's one of the rules that makes them an employee (I THINK!).
What Anon should discuss is whether she's contract or employee. If employee, 
better have bennies. If contractor, better charge a higher rate than current 
employee salary, as health care cost will rocket.

The definition of contractor vs. employee is critical to the "hiring"
company, given the trouble the IRS has given companies & contractors
about this in the last few years. First entertainment, then computer folks 
were deliberately targetted, and some large companies have permanently 
changed their policies as a result, the most common being not hiring any 
contractor for longer than 1 year, ever. I've interviewed several managers 
who found this maddening (who wants to lose a talented contractor after 1 
year?)....

Mysti