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EBSA is committed to providing participant and compliance assistance regarding pension, health and other employee benefit plans.

It is critical that you, the employer, correctly determine whether the individuals providing services are employees or independent contractors.

Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as: "A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed." Black's Law Dictionary page 471 (5th ed. 1979).Employer · Employee · Employment contract · Criticism · Alternatives