Re:Ask HN: Should I sell out the startup that misled me?
by dragonwriter on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:20PM
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> You can only be a contractor if they are actually paying you.
You can be a contractor if they've agreed to a legally-valid contract (which requires some kind of obligation of consideration, whether payment in money or something else), but they could fail to perform that obligation and you could still be a contractor (just as you could still be an employee if the company failed to pay wages), they'd just be in breach of their duty under the contract (whether its an employment contract or otherwise.)
You can be a contractor if they've agreed to a legally-valid contract (which requires some kind of obligation of consideration, whether payment in money or something else), but they could fail to perform that obligation and you could still be a contractor (just as you could still be an employee if the company failed to pay wages), they'd just be in breach of their duty under the contract (whether its an employment contract or otherwise.)