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The same working relationship can be a contractor under one test and an employee under another. The IRS common-law test, the California ABC test, IR35 and the EU Platform Work Directive presumption, compared on what each one actually looks at.
Almost nobody misclassifies deliberately. It happens by drift. Where it comes from, how to size your own exposure, and why fixing it badly draws more attention than leaving it.
How you pay a contractor quietly documents the relationship you have, and it is the document a regulator reads first. Six payment routes reviewed, plus how to read your own AP file the way an auditor would.
At-will thinking does not travel. Six assumptions that break at the border, the sequence to follow, and who needs to be in the room before the first conversation happens.
Sponsorship is an ongoing obligation dressed up as a one-off application. What the commitment covers, what to establish before you make the offer, and what changes when the role does.
What actually belongs in an AI acceptable use policy for HR, clause by clause. Why permission matters more than prohibition, who should own the document, and how to write one staff will follow on a Friday afternoon.
NYC Local Law 144 puts the bias audit obligation on the employer, not the vendor. What an independent audit involves, who can run one, and the two duties that fail separately from the audit itself.
NYC, Illinois, California and the EU all require different AI notice at different moments. Compared side by side, with the trade between writing to the strictest standard and maintaining separate notices.
The line is not what the technology can see. Six kinds of workplace monitoring reviewed honestly, with the legal shape of each and what happens when people start optimising for the metric.
The Digital Omnibus moved the EU AI Act high-risk deadline for employment uses to December 2027. The Article 50 transparency duties did not move. Which of your work still matters, obligation by obligation.
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