California Supreme Court Transforms the Test for Who Is an Employee
It’s interesting how even within companies a hard set social hierarchy has taken place between employees and contractors. The contractors tend to perform the exact same duties as employees, but are usually paid less, have worse future prospects (companies tend to like to hire from full time to full time), worse benefits and generally don’t get most of the perks of being an employee.For coders, is this because they’re objectively somehow worse programmers? Given all the emphasis in hiring on avoiding “bad” hires at all costs, it seems like there’s a conflict between paying for people who are “worse” than a FTE but still accepting their contributions. I realize it’s a strategy that gives the companies more leeway to expand and retract their workforce, but then stigma that is attached throughout the industry around contract workers shouldn’t exist, right?