> A third contractor I knew was trying to do two jobs at the same time.
I mean this literally how contractors work. Unless they were taking your IP and using it for another company I don’t see the issue.
I mean this literally how contractors work. Unless they were taking your IP and using it for another company I don’t see the issue.
In the UK a contractor could be someone from an outsourcing company as you suggest or they could be an independent service provider working on their own. This is very common in software dev here when you require someone with specific skills.
If you’re the latter kind then you’d be wise to bill on deliverables rather than time.
If you don’t you could run into a well known tax reg called HMRC IR35. It bars independent contractors from acting like “disguised” employees. It’s a world of pain if that happens.
The US allows companies to fire long-term employees without cause and replace them with indentured servants.
We're the ones who actually hosted the cotton fields full of slaves, after all.
It's just like a lawyer's billable hours.
Even if he wasn't, he was a contractor, and checking code while being on site for another company was sus. Employment is "at will" in the US for the most part -- particularly contractors.
Edit: Misread your comment. If you're billing for specific and granular blocks of time, and doubling that up, then ya wage theft. But if you're doing that and also expected to be onsite anyway, then no not wage theft imo.