{"id":7786,"date":"2020-09-29T11:32:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/?p=7786"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:08:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:08:56","slug":"independent-contractors-under-assault-in-virginia-now-what-to-do-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/2020\/09\/independent-contractors-under-assault-in-virginia-now-what-to-do-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Contractors Under Assault In Virginia &#8212; What To Do Now: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard that Virginia is cracking down on independent contractors. In fact the law says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;an individual who performs services for a person for remuneration shall be presumed to be an employee of the person that paid such remuneration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, this is rather intrusive, but it is not the end of the world. The first thing you must do if you want to hire an independent contractor in Virginia is: Don&#8217;t hire an INDIVIDUAL, only hire a COMPANY! And if you are starting a business in Virginia and you want to BE an independent contractor to someone else, you should know that no customer that knows what they are doing will hire a sole proprietor to be in independent contractor. Watch the video for more details.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_fAuE14Jek8?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But this might not be the end of what you should do. In future posts I will discuss additional measures you should undertake to ensure you don&#8217;t run afoul of this new law in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Entrepreneurs are going to save the world, and Argent Place Law wants to help. That\u2019s why we are a team of entrepreneur-lawyers serving Entrepreneurs just like you. Think how great it will be to have a legal team with entrepreneurial experience on your speed dial so you can call us up and say, \u201cI want to hire an independent contractor in Virginia, but I am afraid of the new laws! What should I do?\u201d Call Argent Place Law to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/2020\/10\/independent-contractors-in-virginia-part-2\/\">part two<\/a> of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard that Virginia is cracking down on independent contractors. In fact the law says: &#8220;&#8230;an individual who performs services for a person for remuneration shall be presumed to be an employee of the person that paid such remuneration.&#8221; Well, this is rather intrusive, but it is not the end of the world&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/2020\/09\/independent-contractors-under-assault-in-virginia-now-what-to-do-now\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,134],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argentplacelaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}