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Slaughter v. Klink8/18/2000
instructions from the other contracting party regarding the manner or method of performing services;
(ii) The person is required by the other contracting party to have particular training;
(iii) The person's services are integrated into the regular functioning of the other contracting party;
(iv) The person is required to perform the work personally;
(v) The person is hired, supervised, or paid by the other contracting party;
(vi) A continuing relationship exists between the person and the other contracting party that contemplates continuing or recurring work even if the work is not full time;
(vii) The person's hours of work are established by the other contracting party;
(viii) The person is required to devote full time to the business of the other contracting party;
(ix) The person is required to perform the work on the premises of the other contracting party;
(x) The person is required to follow the order of work set by the other contracting party;
(xi) The person is required to make oral or written reports of progress to the other contracting party;
(xii) The person is paid for services on a regular basis such as hourly, weekly, or monthly;
(xiii) The person's expenses are paid for by the other contracting party;
(xiv) The person's tools and materials are furnished by the other contracting party;
(xv) The person is provided with the facilities used to perform services;
(xvi) The person does not realize a profit or suffer a loss as a result of the services provided;
(xvii) The person is not performing services for a number of employers at the same time;
(xviii) The person does not make the same services available to the general public;
(xix) The other contracting party has a right to discharge the person;
(xx) The person has the right to end the relationship with the other contracting party without incurring liability pursuant to an employment contract or agreement. R.C. 4123(A)(1)(c).
Significantly, the amended part of the statute does not use the phrase "in the service of." Further, based on our review of the case law, the amendment appears to be an attempt to codify the various factual matters courts have considered when deciding if an employee relationship, including the employer's "right to control," exists. See, e.g., Gillum, 141 Ohio St. at 381-82, citing 1 Restatement of the Law, 220, p. 483; Bostic, 37 Ohio St.3d at 147; Harmon v. Schnurmacher (1992), 84 Ohio App.3d 207; and Sub. H. Bill No. 245 (indicating that legislature's intent in amending 4123.01 was to "to redefine 'employee' for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Law").
Moreover, while Slauter objects to reducing the test to a "mathematical formula," we think the legislature was trying to simplify a complex area. As has been noted by more than one court, the test of an independent contractor relationship is simply stated, but is not so easy to apply to the facts of different cases. See, e.g., Councell v. Douglas (1955), 163 Ohio St. 292, 296. Additionally, allowing summary judgment to be granted in such cases may have further complicated the problem. As was noted in Harmon,
Bostic stands for the proposition that in the face of undisputed facts, summary judgment is appropriate, it ignored the possibility that such "undisputed" facts may still be adversarial in nature, thus posing a genuine issue of material fact.
For example, in addition to the "right to control," some other indicia of the employment versus independen
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