Atozona recently enacted a law that should make it easier for independent contractors to be viewed as such by the state’s government. This new law should ease the burden of proving independent contractor status for employees of companies such as uber and Lyft. It’s an important law for those who face this issue on a regular basis.
Key Takeaways:
- Arizona has made it a little easier to prove that a worker is an independent contractor rather than an employee
- The state recently enacted a law that allows employers to ask workers to sign a declaration stating that they are independent contractors
- Increasingly, state unemployment authorities are finding that discharged contractors were actually employees, and they are granting unemployment benefits
“The state recently enacted a law that allows employers to ask workers to sign a declaration stating that they are independent contractors.”
