Business Services Industry
Avoiding liability for temp workers.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Business Insurance, July, 2000 by WOJCIK, JOANNE
LAS VEGAS -- When is an employee really an employee and what difference does it make? In the case of Donna Vizcaino et al. vs. Microsoft Corp., it cost the Seattle-based software maker more than $100 million in stock options when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to reverse an appellate court ruling holding that Microsoft's temporary workers were entitled to the same benefits accorded full-time employees.
"And you thought Bill Gates was having a bad day when Nasdaq dropped," quipped Rodney Glover, managing partner of the Washington office of Gardner, Carton & Douglas. In a similar case, the Internal Revenue Service ordered Atlantic Richfield Co. to pay $3 million for allegedly misclassifying temporary workers. And a lawsuit filed by two former volunteers...
Most Recent Business Articles
- Multiple criteria evaluation and optimization of transportation systems
- Multi-criteria analysis procedure for sustainable mobility evaluation in urban areas
- A two-leveled multi-objective symbiotic evolutionary algorithm for the hub and spoke location problem
- Multi-criteria analysis for evaluating the impacts of intelligent speed adaptation
- The development of Taiwan arterial traffic-adaptive signal control system and its field test: a Taiwan experience
Most Recent Business Publications
Most Popular Business Articles
- 7 tips for effective listening: productive listening does not occur naturally. It requires hard work and practice - Back To Basics - effective listening is a crucial skill for internal auditors
- FAS 109: a primer for non-accountants - Financial Accounting Standards Board's "Statement 109: Accounting for Income Taxes"
- Design a commission plan that drives sales - Sales Commissions
- Too Young to Rent a Car? - 25-years-old the minimum age for car renting - Brief Article
- LIFO vs. FIFO: a return to the basics
