Legal Question in Employment Law in Pennsylvania
I'm an independent contractor for a company, I get paid a daily wage, regardless of how many hours I spend at a location. My boss for the past few months has been threatening all of his employees with reductions to pay for basically anything that goes wrong. If something is set up wrong, he threatens to take away as much as half of the daily wage and we have to sign a page at the beginning of every work day saying that we know this is the case, my question is, is that at all legal?
Can an employer force you to sign away the right for him to take away wages if he feels the work is done incorrectly or if a problem happens?
1 Answer from Attorneys
An independent contractor is someone who sets his own work schedule, hours, and for the most part, location. If your employer regularly tells you that you have to be at location x for at least y hours, you are an employee, not an independent contractor.
That being said, if you are a true independent contractor, you may contract for whatever terms the two of you agree upon.
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