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- Permatemp is a 1990s expression, a byproduct of the new economy.
- Laws and legal rulings continue to define the permatemp-employee relationship.
- There are two types of permatemp employment relationships.
- The staffing firm still must hire the permatemp to do the work, still on-site at the corporation.
- Kathie Hanratty-Masi deals with a different gripe : the federal court case involving Microsoft's " permatemp " employees.
- More recently, court cases involving Microsoft's misclassification of its " permatemp " work force gave the issue a broader stage.
- Before she filed suit, Casey had been a permatemp at an Alaska-based division of Arco in the Bering Sea for nearly 10 years.
- The result is the permatemp, a new species of the part-time or temporary worker whose appearance at the office is now as regular as that of the veteran full-time employee.
- A side effect of the " permatemp " lawsuit is that now contract employees are prevented from participating in team morale events and other activities that could be construed as making them " employees ".
- The second kind of permatemp is an employee of a payroll agency or Professional Employer Organization, which sends workers to work in a long-term, on-site position for a private company or public employer.
- The IRS, in an effort to close loop holes which allow companies to hire temporary employees and thus avoid federal employee taxes have created a very clear definition of a " Common Law Employee " versus a " permatemp ".
- MICROSOFT-WORKERS _ In the biggest settlement of its kind, Microsoft Corp . has agreed to pay $ 97 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by so-called " permatemp " workers _ some of whom had worked there for as many as 17 years _ who claimed the company improperly denied them benefits by refusing to classify them as full-time employees . ( Keefe, Cox News Service)
- Misclassification of employees can lead to severe tax liabilities ( IRS PUB 15 Circular E ) and civil penalties as in the case of Vizcaino v Microsoft . Furthermore, if a " permatemp " actually qualifies as a common law employee, they are entitled to the same fringe benefits their co-workers receive either after one year or after the qualification standard set for regular employees, IRS Publication 15B . IRS Publication 7003 goes so far as to say " An individual who is actually a common law employee of the recipient ( the worksite company ) will not become an employee of another entity merely because the recipient enters into a formal " leasing agreement'with another entity ."