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When you hire some schmoe to paint your house, they're called what??? .... contractors - not employees. If the owner of the contracting company fails to follow OSHA rules, it's the owner of the contracting companies problem not the person who hired them to paint the house.


Those days are long gone for the most part. As soon as you start giving the "contractor" much more detail than color and number of coats you want, you've stepped into the wonderful world of personal responsibility for your new short-term employees. As others have pointed out, the courts have seen through the transparent attempts of employers to sidestep living up to what most would consider their responsibilities by means of technicalities, non-binding contracts, legalese laughed at outside of porn, and such for years now.

It's my understanding that most (all?) of the "legal paperwork" found in porn would be unable to withstand substantial scrutiny from an even halfhearted attempt to negate it by competent counsel too.
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"I'm rich. I'm a strong, trained fighter. I own a gun. And I am completely...fucking ... psychotic." Kurt Lockwood ranting yet again