When is an employee considered to be your employee?

Under common-law rules, anyone who performs services for you is your employee if you can control what will be done and how it will be done. This is so even when you give the employee freedom of action.

What do you need to know about Statutory employees?

The work performed for you must be the salesperson’s principal business activity. Refer to the Salesperson section located in Publication 15-A, Employer’s Supplemental Tax Guide for additional information. Withhold Social Security and Medicare taxes from the wages of statutory employees if all three of the following conditions apply.

What happens when an employee misses eleven days of work?

But, none of your feelings matter when the employee is not performing his job . In a technology company, an employee attended her termination meeting. In the month prior to her termination, the employee had missed eleven days of work.

When to fire an employee for performance problems?

No matter how well you’ve communicated about performance problems with the employee, almost no one believes that they will actually get fired. This is often not without cause as the average employer waits too long to fire a non-performing employee much of the time.

What are ten things you should never tell your employees?

Here are ten things never, ever to tell your employees: 1. Never tell one employee or a group of employees when one team member is having problems at work. If you need someone to re-train or mentor an employee, simply ask them to help with that specific task. Don’t preface the request with “After two months, Sarah still isn’t picking up the job.