As an Independent Contractor, Do I qualify for Workers’ Compensation?

Do you work in construction?

Did your employer hire you as an independent contractor, but you work 40 + hours a week?

That’s a trap! They’re trying to get themselves out of paying for workers’ compensation insurance. 

According to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, “Workers are presumed to be employees unless proven otherwise. To prove that someone is an independent contractor and not an employee, the worker must:

• be free from direction and control in the performance of the work; and
• have an independent business doing that specific kind of work.

Paying someone with a 1099 does not make them a contractor.”

Learn more if you qualify for workers’ compensation as an independent contractor here.

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