{"id":5292,"date":"2016-09-28T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2016-09-28T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T14:39:18","slug":"employee-independent-contractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/employee-independent-contractor\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee or Independent Contractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/attorneys\/lane-v-erickson\">Lane V. Erickson<\/a>, Attorney<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">It may be surprising to know that many people who are working a job really don\u2019t know whether they are an employee or not. They may think that they are an independent contractor, but may not actually be one according to the law. \u3000In Moore v. Moore, the Idaho Supreme Court provided some specific guidance on whether a person is in fact an independent contractor or not. Here are the 4 factors the Courts used in its decision.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">The <b>first factor<\/b> that the Court examined was whether there was direct evidence of the employer&#8217;s right to control the time, manner, and method of the work. In analyzing this factor, the Commission found that Claimant generally controlled his own work. The Commission analyzed the period of time from the late 1990&#8217;s until 2008, and found that at all times before and after the accident, Claimant was an <\/span><span style=\"color: #666666; font-family: Georgia;\">independent contractor<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"> who controlled his own work. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/advance.lexis.com\/api\/document\/collection\/cases\/id\/5237-92X1-652K-F008-00000-00?page=249&amp;reporter=3120&amp;context=1000516\"><span style=\"color: #004b91; font-family: Georgia;\">Moore v. Moore, 152 Idaho 245, 249, 269 P.3d 802, 2011 Ida. LEXIS 12 (Idaho 2011)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><span lang=\"EN\">. <i>Shriner v. Rausch<\/i>, 141 Idaho 228, 108 P.3d 375 (2005), does not stand for the proposition that the Commission cannot consider the course of dealings between the parties when conducting its analysis. Importantly, the Court in <i>Shriner<\/i> never indicated that the course of dealing <i>could not<\/i> be considered, but only that the course of dealing did not change the result in that case. If anything, the Court&#8217;s statement was an explicit acknowledgement that the course of dealing was properly examined, but that such dealings either supported, or did not contradict, the Court&#8217;s ultimate conclusion. <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/advance.lexis.com\/api\/document\/collection\/cases\/id\/5237-92X1-652K-F008-00000-00?page=250&amp;reporter=3120&amp;context=1000516\"><span style=\"color: #004b91; font-family: Georgia;\">Moore v. Moore, 152 Idaho 245, 250, 269 P.3d 802, 2011 Ida. LEXIS 12 (Idaho 2011).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/employee-independent-contractor\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Employee or Independent Contractor\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lane V. Erickson, Attorney It may be surprising to know that many people who are working a job really don\u2019t know whether they are an employee or not. They may think that they are an independent contractor, but may not actually be one according to the law. \u3000In Moore v. 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