General Contractors - Building Contractors
Residential General Contractors - Home Building - Commercial Buildings
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Who is an independent contractor?
The general rule is that:

 If the one who pays for the labor and services of another has the right to control what will be done and how it will be done, this other person is an employee. This will be so even though the employee has been given some degree of freedom of action. The key determinant is the existence of the right to control the details of how any work is done. Whether such control is actually exercised is irrelevant.
If the one paying for the work does not have the right to control the day-to-day working but merely to direct the desired result, the person supplying the labour is an independent contractor. For example, if a builder uses the in-house employees for basic construction but hires in specialists for eleCenterical, plumbing, plastering, and decorating work as and when required, these are likely to be independent contractors. One clear sign will be whether such individuals are entered in the payroll system and paid as other employees, or paid when the work contracted for is completed and certified of satisfactory quality.
Continuing the example of the builder (above), if Third Parties are aware of the work being performed by a person who appears to be an Independent Contractor and that person approaches them for the supply of materials to be used in those works,