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Subject:Re: Managing Help Files From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 14 Apr 1997 09:23:47 -0700
At 10:50 AM 4/13/97 -0500, Buck Buchanan wrote:
>2. No attachments, no loyalty to the emploee is required. In some
>contracts we consultants are really second class citizens.
Very frequently second class status is mandated by employment laws. If you
treat a contractor like a full-time employee, you leave youself open to a
claim from the contractor that they are *really* a full-time employee and
entitled to benefits, etc. - exactly the situation you are trying to avoid
in the first place. In theory contractors should not attend company and
department meetings. And birthday parties? - forget about it.
--Wayne Douglass
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