Employment Law

Maryland Misclassification Cases Often Start with a Claim for Unemployment

By James Rubin, Esq.

Maryland's unemployment law has a restrictive test for employment status.  You are a presumed to be an employee unless:

• You are free from direction and control;
• You are engaged in an independent business that is of the same nature as the work your are performing; and
• You are performing the work is outside the usual course of business of the person for whom it is performed OR the work is performed outside any place of business of the person for whom it is performed.

Full post as published by Maryland Employment Law on October 02, 2017 (boomark / email).