I'm FT indepen contracter. my boss is always weeks late with checks due 2 lack of $. What action can i take

Answer 1

If you were directly employed by him, you could file an administrative complaint with the State Labor and Workforce Agency, but you are only a contractor. As a contractor, you work under a contract with this contractor. You would have to sue him in a state court for breach of contract. But, in doing so, plan on losing his business.

Answer 2

Well, I have certainly been in that situation, and can feel your pain, as they say....

That is a tough situation, since you have to work for the individual after the action you may take.

I have a few possible scenarios, that may give you some choices.

First off, let me begin my saying that legally, it is hard for you to prove that he actually owes you money for certain jobs, or certain hours of work, unless you have signed documentation, i.e., an invoice, or some type of "weekly job sheet" with indications on it that it has been approved by him or her. Without that, it is your word against his, so to speak, and there is really no case. If you do have something to this effect, great, keep it up. If not, I would highly suggest that you begin a process like this immediately, even going back to include the amounts or "jobs" for which you are still owed.

Ok, that being said, if you have documentation, you can go to the State. If you believe you will not ever be paid, you can do this and it would make sense.

If you believe you will be paid, just not in a timely manner, another option is to make yourself busy with other work, if at all possible, and consider his or her "work" as a job for an individual, i.e., if you had a customer that had not paid for previous jobs, you would not do other jobs for that person until those previous jobs were paid, and that customer would rightly understand this concept. If you apply that logic to this job you have, and tell your boss that you have other work to do and cannot spend your time working for him or her until you are paid in full, because your time must be spent making money to pay your own bills, he or she will have to understand. The key to making this scenario work, however, is to make sure you acutally have, or find, other work to do, in case this option does not influence him or her to pay you immediately, or reasonably quickly.

I would suspect that, being an independent contractor, you either have a good knowledge of your individual trade, or may even carry some type of license in that trade, and possibly worker's compensation insurance, and job liability insurance, since most contractors require that of their "subs". Use these things to your advantage, and either find a full time job in that field, or find "piece-work", either by marketing yourself, or by applying with a simlar company to the one you work at now, with the initial understanding at that similar company, that you are initially an "at will sub", because you have other things going on as well, and that if work is steady and works well for both parties, you could become a "full time sub" with that new, similar company.

That is a tough situation to be in, and I hope this provides you some direction or options on what to do. Remember, he or she is the boss, but you do have skills. Don't sell yourself short, but be realistic. Go get em!!

If you are indeed an illegal immigrant such as the others on here have suggested, I'm afraid you are screwed. You are not even supposed to be working, because you don't have a social security number to file and pay income taxes here, so the government is not about to look out for you.

Answer 3

Tell him you want the money up front. ask him if it was ok if you were the boss and made him wait a few weeks for the money. if he tells you he cant pay you every week....he is a crappy boss and you should look for another job. Tell him if you dont pay me every week. i am going back to the job and taking everything i installed out. From now on you pay me then i work. If he has a lack of money he is spending the money before he pays you. tell him you wanna go when he collects the money so you can get paid right away. you work for him when he calls you, you do the best work the fastest way and do it in good faith. Pay me every friday or i am charging you a fee for making me work, Tell him you cant tell the electric company you will pay them in a few weeks. You work you get paid...thats the way you do business. Or tell him i got most of the job done, when you pay me i will finish the rest of it. tell him you cant eat on i will pay you in a few weeks. Or tell him from now on you will collect your money from the customer when you finish the job. Tell him look i did my part and now i want my pay. i worked for it i want to get paid for it now. or dont say anything, start a job work a day then tell him you will finish as soon as you see some money

Answer 4

Start looking for a new job and when you find one, quit. That boss is not meeting his obligations to his employees.

Answer 5

Find yourself another job. Go into business for yourself. Go back to Mexico.

Answer 6

Quit!

Answer 7

If he doesn't have the money to pay you as it is and you were to make him spend any money he doesn't have, do you think he would ever use you again?

Think woman, think!