Tag: benefits

News Notes: SF Tells United Airlines To Offer Domestic Partner Benefits

By HR Daily Advisor Staff Feb 1, 1997 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 18, 2015

If United wants to fly to San Francisco, it may have to comply with the City’s controversial new domestic partners ordinance, warned a Board of Supervisors committee. In December, the Board voted to do business only with contractors who provide their employees with domestic partner benefits. (See CEA December 1996.) United does not currently do […]

Independent Contractors: How to Protect Yourself–Before You’re Called in for an Audit

By HR Daily Advisor Staff Feb 1, 1997 Uncategorized

Updated: Feb 1, 1997

The problem can surface without warning. A former independent contractor applies for unemployment benefits, but the state can’t find any record that the person was on your payroll or that you paid unemployment taxes. Before you know it, you’re being audited and facing huge penalties for all the workers you may have misclassified as independent […]