Here is another example about the importance of properly classifying your employees. Frank Steinberg in his New Jersey Law Blog tells us that the NFL Loses to IRS regarding how the League had been treating their 70-plus Drug Program Agents [DPA’s], who collect urine samples for the drug testing program. The IRS recently ruled that the DPA’s are league employees, not independent contractors as previously treated by the NFL. Mr. Steinberg also links us to the story as reported by the New York Daily News. The ruling could cost the NFL millions in employment taxes and benefits.

Here are links to two posts I did on this topic:

Who’s your employee: inquiring minds and the IRS want to know

What to do when an independent contractor is really an employee