contractor laws

[dhardinwallace]

I am a contractor for a cable company in ohio. I'm under the impression that as a contractor I do not have to pick up additional work. Jobs are constantly being given to us without our consent, and are threatened to get fired if we refuse. From what I understand, as a contractor we have to right to refuse work or not work at all without fear of being fired. Does anyone have any personal experience with this?

 

[Zigner]

I am a contractor for a cable company in ohio. I'm under the impression that as a contractor I do not have to pick up additional work. Jobs are constantly being given to us without our consent, and are threatened to get fired if we refuse. From what I understand, as a contractor we have to right to refuse work or not work at all without fear of being fired. Does anyone have any personal experience with this?

You can't get "fired" if you're a contractor. Conversely, you can't force them to give you work if you're a contractor.

 

[LeeHarveyBlotto]

Do you have a written contract with the provider? If so, does it address the issue of accepting/declining work?

 

[eerelations]

There are no laws addressing your issue. Your contract is where you'll find your answers.

 

[justalayman]

Putting the other two responses together;

First, refer to your contract to determine if it provides any direction on the matter. If there is no contract that addresses such issues, then they can demand you do as much work as they want to. Your option at that point is either accept the work or refuse it. If you refuse it, they can terminate your services or reduce the amount of work they would typically assign to you or, but being the most unlikely, smile and say; ok, we'll just assign all this extra work to somebody else.

 

[dhardinwallace]

Basically my relationship is I work under a contractor and they will give us jobs throughout the day. It says nothing in the contract about amount of work I have to take. But it does state I'm allowed to set my own days and hours. I'm curious to whether or not that means I can turn down work stating I'm done for the day

 

[Zigner]

Basically my relationship is I work under a contractor and they will give us jobs throughout the day. It says nothing in the contract about amount of work I have to take. But it does state I'm allowed to set my own days and hours. I'm curious to whether or not that means I can turn down work stating I'm done for the day

Look - bottom line is that if you refuse to do work, then your working relationship can be terminated.

 

[justalayman]

You work under a contractor or you are a contractor?

Generally speaking, since we don't have slavery any longer, you can refuse any work you don't wish to take on.

Of course unless they are bound to continue engaging your services, they can refuse to give you any more work at all.



You will have to guess as to how they will react to turning down work.