HR & Workforce
Employee Classification
Contractor or employee, exempt or not. Get it right.
Misclassification is one of the most expensive ordinary compliance failures there is. Treat an employee as a contractor and you’re looking at back payroll tax, penalties and benefit liability. Treat a non-exempt employee as exempt and you’re looking at unpaid overtime going back years, usually across a whole job category at once.
We work through classification under whichever federal and state tests apply. They differ, and some states use strict ABC tests. We document positions you can defend, and where the current treatment won’t survive a look, we fix it.
What you get
Tested per state
Analysed under each test that applies, including the strict ABC standards.
Exempt status reviewed
Duties tests applied honestly against what the person really does all day.
Written down
Positions documented at the time, not reconstructed after someone asks.
A way to fix it
A route to correct treatment that limits how far back the exposure reaches.
Common questions
Long-term, full-time, exclusive contractor relationships are the pattern most likely to fail a classification test, especially in states using an ABC test. How long it’s been going on is itself a risk factor.
Employee Classification
Let's talk about employee classification.
Worker classification analysis under the federal and state tests, exempt status review, and fixing things where the current position won’t hold up.