Don,
Usually in a piecework or commisioned situation workers are paid the
piecework rate or minimum wage, whatever is higher. Benefits (social
security, workers comp, etc) are calculated from the rate you were paid,
just like a normal hourly job. They are still employees.
Don

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: Rear Hatch Gasketage

>  Really?  They pay the workers piecework in shops?
>
> So every mechanic who works in my state has to have his own business
> license, insurance, bond and everything else?  They'd be subcontractors
> here and subject to huge nasty fines for working without the proper
> license...
>  The employer, the shop owner, he doesn't have to provide any benefits to
> these workers, then...and the state, it gets a fee from every guy who
> works
> in the shop rather than just a single fee for the shop as a whole?   I
> don't think Workmans Compensation covers Self Employed, and I know
> Unemployment Insurance doesn't apply to them, either.
>
> Last time I checked, the fee to get a sub's license, bonding and insurance
> to comply with my state's requirements were nearly $3000....a lot of cash
> for nothing but the right to go punch in and work all day