Reply #56: "Another employee" no, -- the First employee, YES.. [View All]

[mackdaddy]

All of the issues listed are true and just part of running ANY business. There are also a lot more regulations and record keeping and taxes you have to collect like sales taxes for hundreds of different tax districts in just Ohio and forms like the W9 just to sell products or services now. But this is the same as it has been for any of our lifetimes!

Where the above statement is true is for going from a sole proprietor to having ANY employees. Pretty much any small business that has even one employee other than the owner will need another employee to just keep up with all of the books (or outsourced bookkeeper). That is a major reason I have not grown my business to that next step. The smallest business with employees is almost always 3 or 4 people.

But once you have the system in place to keep track whether you have 3 employees or 25 is not much different from the standpoint of these requirements.

Finally most of what was being complained about in the quoted statement I agree is bogus. Yes it is a risk you could run into a gold digger trying to scam you with false accusations, but you can run into this just walking out your front door. Most of the labor laws are just making sure you treat your employees FAIRLY! Don't try to screw people over and it is not an issue.