Legal Question in Business Law in Maryland

Or employers able to deduct money from pay

Or Employers able to deduct money from a contractors pay without a written contract? Are eployers obligated to give a contractor a pay stub or will a check be suffcient. I work for them daily but they have rules as tif I was and employee rather than a contractor. For example I must call in between 8 and 9 am otherwise it's a $25.00 fine, even though I come to work at 3 is this legal?


Asked on 8/04/04, 10:39 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Robert Sher Wagshal and Sher

Re: Or employers able to deduct money from pay

If you are working for this employer on a regular schedule, and being paid for your time, as opposed to sporadic work where you're not required to show up unless you feel like it, the employer should be withholding income and social security taxes from your paycheck and should be paying the amounts withheld to the federal and state tax offices. He should also be matching your social security taxes and sending that in as well. If he's not, he is violating the law.

However, if you consider yourself an independent contractor being paid on a job basis, he should be paying you whatever you agreed and you are responsible for your own taxes.

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Answered on 8/04/04, 2:58 pm


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