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I. How We Work in Washington. Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services. APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
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If you are now using an agency to hire someone, you probably cannot hire her outside the agency. Your contract with the agency probably does not allow that. Its like stealing and you could be sued. Same for the employee. Her contract may not allow this either.
If you have no contract with an agency but the aide works for one, that all depends on the contract aide has with agency.
There ate a couple of members who have and do work with agencies and can explain how all this works.
Yes, but at your risk. If she is a full-time employee you have to cover: Social Security and Medicare Taxes (FICA): For 2024, if you pay cash wages of $2,700 or more to any one household employee, you must withhold and pay FICA taxes. The total tax is 15.3% of wages (7.65% is the employee's share, and 7.65% is your employer's share). You are responsible for withholding the employee's share and paying the full amount to the IRS. Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA): If you paid total cash wages of $1,000 or more in any calendar quarter during the current or preceding year, you must pay FUTA tax on the first $7,000 of wages. This tax is paid solely by the employer. Federal Income Tax Withholding: You are generally not required to withhold federal income tax from a household employee's wages unless the employee requests it and you agree. If you do agree, the employee must provide a completed Form W-4 to determine the correct withholding amount. Reporting: You must file Schedule H (Form 1040) with your personal federal income tax return to report these taxes. You also need to provide your employee with a Form W-2 by the end of January of the following year. State Taxes: You may also have state unemployment tax or other state-specific tax obligations. Check your state's unemployment agency for information.
Sure you can, you just need to expect that there will be consequences.
She probably signed a no-compete contract when she took the agency job. And if you hired her through the agency, you also probably signed a contract forbidding the poaching of their employees.
If you attempt to circumvent the contracts, then be prepared for the consequences which are clearly outlined in the contracts.
That depends entirely upon what legal forms, documents and agreements she made with the agency she worked for. Speak with HER/HIM or with the agency itself.
By proceeding, I agree that I understand the following disclosures:
I. How We Work in Washington.
Based on your preferences, we provide you with information about one or more of our contracted senior living providers ("Participating Communities") and provide your Senior Living Care Information to Participating Communities. The Participating Communities may contact you directly regarding their services.
APFM does not endorse or recommend any provider. It is your sole responsibility to select the appropriate care for yourself or your loved one. We work with both you and the Participating Communities in your search. We do not permit our Advisors to have an ownership interest in Participating Communities.
II. How We Are Paid.
We do not charge you any fee – we are paid by the Participating Communities. Some Participating Communities pay us a percentage of the first month's standard rate for the rent and care services you select. We invoice these fees after the senior moves in.
III. When We Tour.
APFM tours certain Participating Communities in Washington (typically more in metropolitan areas than in rural areas.) During the 12 month period prior to December 31, 2017, we toured 86.2% of Participating Communities with capacity for 20 or more residents.
IV. No Obligation or Commitment.
You have no obligation to use or to continue to use our services. Because you pay no fee to us, you will never need to ask for a refund.
V. Complaints.
Please contact our Family Feedback Line at (866) 584-7340 or ConsumerFeedback@aplaceformom.com to report any complaint. Consumers have many avenues to address a dispute with any referral service company, including the right to file a complaint with the Attorney General's office at: Consumer Protection Division, 800 5th Avenue, Ste. 2000, Seattle, 98104 or 800-551-4636.
VI. No Waiver of Your Rights.
APFM does not (and may not) require or even ask consumers seeking senior housing or care services in Washington State to sign waivers of liability for losses of personal property or injury or to sign waivers of any rights established under law.
I agree that:
A.
I authorize A Place For Mom ("APFM") to collect certain personal and contact detail information, as well as relevant health care information about me or from me about the senior family member or relative I am assisting ("Senior Living Care Information").
B.
APFM may provide information to me electronically. My electronic signature on agreements and documents has the same effect as if I signed them in ink.
C.
APFM may send all communications to me electronically via e-mail or by access to an APFM web site.
D.
If I want a paper copy, I can print a copy of the Disclosures or download the Disclosures for my records.
E.
This E-Sign Acknowledgement and Authorization applies to these Disclosures and all future Disclosures related to APFM's services, unless I revoke my authorization. You may revoke this authorization in writing at any time (except where we have already disclosed information before receiving your revocation.) This authorization will expire after one year.
F.
You consent to APFM's reaching out to you using a phone system than can auto-dial numbers (we miss rotary phones, too!), but this consent is not required to use our service.
If you have no contract with an agency but the aide works for one, that all depends on the contract aide has with agency.
There ate a couple of members who have and do work with agencies and can explain how all this works.
Social Security and Medicare Taxes (FICA): For 2024, if you pay cash wages of $2,700 or more to any one household employee, you must withhold and pay FICA taxes. The total tax is 15.3% of wages (7.65% is the employee's share, and 7.65% is your employer's share). You are responsible for withholding the employee's share and paying the full amount to the IRS.
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA): If you paid total cash wages of $1,000 or more in any calendar quarter during the current or preceding year, you must pay FUTA tax on the first $7,000 of wages. This tax is paid solely by the employer.
Federal Income Tax Withholding: You are generally not required to withhold federal income tax from a household employee's wages unless the employee requests it and you agree. If you do agree, the employee must provide a completed Form W-4 to determine the correct withholding amount.
Reporting: You must file Schedule H (Form 1040) with your personal federal income tax return to report these taxes. You also need to provide your employee with a Form W-2 by the end of January of the following year.
State Taxes: You may also have state unemployment tax or other state-specific tax obligations. Check your state's unemployment agency for information.
Sure you can, you just need to expect that there will be consequences.
She probably signed a no-compete contract when she took the agency job. And if you hired her through the agency, you also probably signed a contract forbidding the poaching of their employees.
If you attempt to circumvent the contracts, then be prepared for the consequences which are clearly outlined in the contracts.