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1099 Contractor vs employee question?

Hello. I currently work as a 1099 contractor for a satellite installation company. I am also a manager for them. They pay me an amount every two weeks to show up at the shop between 6:30 and 7:30 am to assign gear out to the techs. I have several other duties such as taking pictures of the tech's work, answering the phone calls, and sometimes having to go out and help the techs (< these 3 things are not part of my question though) I also have to count the warehouse every monday and send my boss an email by 8am that day. I also am forced to be on a conference call at 10am every tuesday morning with satellite representatives. On top of this I also go out and run my own satellite installation route. I am now being required to send an email to my bosses assistant every morning by 10am explaining in great detail what I have done the previous day. Things included in this email would be activites for the day and phone calls made to people about getting more work for the techs and what those people said to me when I asked for more work.

To me more than 90 percent of this email screams employee and not contractor...am I correct to assume this? And if so if I refuse to complete the daily log and I am let go what do I do?

Update:

kemperk...i have been doing this for close to 3 years and have received a 1099 for this just so that is clear. Thank you for your response.

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  • 7 years ago

    sorry

    you cannot be a contractor manager. That violates the

    definition of contractor

    YOU can be an employed manager but

    contractors may not be managed or manage others or clocked or

    otherwise supervised; EMPLOYEEs MUST BE.

  • Henry
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Go to irs.gov and complete form SS8. You will then know if you are an independent contractor or an employee.

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