Independent contractors generally are responsible for providing their own assistants along with their pay and supervision. Services may be continuing even though they are performed at irregular intervals, on a part-time basis, seasonally, or over a short term. Contractors are generally hired for a particular job and the relationship ends when the task is completed. Establishing a work schedule is indicative of control. Its meaning will vary depending on the intent of the parties.
Contractors are generally free to work when, for whom and for as many employers as they please.
Doing the work on an employer's premises implies control, especially if the work is of such a nature that it could be performed elsewhere. Conversely, however, the fact that work is done off the employer's premises does not, of itself, mean that no right to control exists. Here, too, it is the right to set the sequence, not the exercise of that right, that is controlling. Submitting reports is an indication of control. The guarantee of a minimum salary or the granting of a drawing account at stated intervals with no requirement for repayment of the excess over earnings tends to indicate the existence of an employer-employee relationship.