White Paper - "Interpreting Your Choices"

A guide to understanding the difference between over-the-phone interpretation providers

Retaining telephone interpreting companies who contract interpreters instead of hiring them as employees can be risky.

Such language interpreting firms often assume that an independent contractor relationship is a simple agreement between a business and a worker.

They could not be more mistaken.

Government agencies have laid out strict criteria that define such relationships. And, they enforce stiff penalties when those criteria are not met, whether intentionally or by accident.

In fact, many telephone interpreting organizations are facing substantial liability for having classified their workers as employees, when they should have been classified as contractors. 

However, language interpreting companies who retain contract interpreters are not the only ones at risk.

Any organization that does business...

with language interpreting companies who mis-classify interpreters as contractors may also be penalized.

Due to the growing trend of retaining contractors, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is now subjecting these work relationships, and all parties involved, to increased scrutiny and cracking down on offenders.

This must read white paper addresses these and other issues that deal with the impact of hiring contract interpreters though a language service provider.

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