Effective July 15, 2010 a new Nebraska law provides for protection of workers in construction, trucking and delivery services from misclassification as sub-contractors for the purposes of tax with-holding, unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation insurance benefits.
The new law requires contractors to post a notice in English and Spanish at the job site or place of business. Contractor includes any individual or business entity engaged in construction or delivery services, including all subcontractors.
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The law provides for protection of workers in construction and delivery services from misclassification as subcontractors for the purposes of tax withholding, unemployment insurance and workers’ compensation insurance benefits.
Construction means “work on real property and annexations, (annexation means to add something larger) including new work, additions, alterations, reconstruction, installations, and repairs performed at one or more different sites which may be dispersed geographically”.
Contractor means “an individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or other business entity engaged in a delivery service or a construction contractor business, as contractor is defined in Section 48-2103, and includes any subcontractor performing services for a contractor”. Contractor as defined in Section 48-2103 means “an individual, firm, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or other association of persons engaged in the business of the construction, alteration, repairing, dismantling, or demolition of buildings, roads, bridges, viaducts, sewers, water and gas mains, streets, disposal plants, water filters, tanks and towers, airports, dams, levees and canals, water wells, pipelines, transmission and power lines, and every other type of structure, project, development, or improvement within the definition of real property and personal property, including such construction, repairing, or alteration of such property to be held either for sale or rental. Contractor also includes any subcontractor engaged in the business of such activities and any person who is providing or arranging for labor for such activities, either as an employee or as an independent contractor, for any contractor or person”.
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