1099 contractor question.?

Question

At our company our employees start off as 1099 contractors for a 2 week probationary period and then are brought on to full-time employees that are salaried.

We have one employee who is from Bermuda and has a work Visa so I am curious to know if a 1099 form is going to be valid for paying him?

Thanks

Answer 1

Actually it probably isn't valid for any of you.  Whether someone is an independent contractor or not depends on the control the boss has over the workers, not an arbitrary time period of two weeks.

If the boss controls what you do, how you do it, when you do it, where you do it and what tools you use to do it, you are an employee from day one.