Re: Employment
Posted by O Gal on 8/01/08

They can't make you an independent consultant unless you file
a w-9 with them. You had better start billing them for your
time, or stay home.

It sure sounds like you have been terminated. Have you asked
them? If you want unemployment, don't file a W-9 with them.

On 8/01/08, Joe wrote:
> Paid salary. Employed a year. Merger August 1. Can't keep
> all administrators. Hired office manager to replace me at
> 1/2 my salary. Oops! Merger pushed forward to October 1. Now
> told I am no longer salary, won't be paid hourly, no company
> benefits. Q: Have I or have I not been terminated? They want
> me to hang around w/o pay just in case they need my 20
> years of management experience. My employer has just made me
> an independent consultant. What is the chance that will
> receive unemployment. I am 60 years old if that helps and
> not a legal resident of Florida. I actually live and would
> file unemployment in the state of Tennessee. Thanks! Joe

Posts on this thread, including this one

• FL: Employment, 8/01/08, by Joe.
• Re: Employment, 8/01/08, by O Gal.