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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Hash Oil Headaches: Think Twice Before Using an Independent Contractor 🌿Hash Oil Headaches: Think Twice Before Using an Independent Contractor
As new industries arise, old problems can resurface and cause a lot of headaches for employers. The most common one for employers right now is employee status. Who is considered an employee? How can you provide work for someone without being responsible for workers compensation premiums for them, especially if the work is high risk?
It often makes more sense in a burgeoning industry to farm out some operations to independent contractors. Non-employee producers are less expensive since they don’t require as much oversight, equipment or space as employees. Businesses also don’t have to provide workers compensation insurance coverage or employee benefits like medical insurance or paid vacation time to these workers, and training costs are nil.
Uber has been grappling with the independent contractor vs. employee issue for a few years now. The cannabis industry is just beginning to have the same problems and it all boils down to hash oil.
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