Legal Opinion
Colo. Custom Maid, LLC v. Indus. Claim Appeals Office
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided May 28, 2019No. Supreme Court Case 17SC350PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JUSTICE HART delivered the Opinion of the Court.
¶1 Colorado Custom Maid (CCM) places house cleaners with clients who need their homes cleaned. In doing so, it has tried to avoid becoming the house cleaners' employer, hoping instead to maintain the relationship as one between a referral service and a group of independent contractors so that it could avoid paying unemployment taxes on the money it paid to those cleaners.
¶2 In 2014, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment Division of Employment and Training (Division) concluded that, despite CCM's efforts to characterize them as…
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- Allen Co., Inc. v. INDUSTRIAL COM'NSupreme Court of Colorado · 1988
- Industrial Claim Appeals Office v. Softrock Geological Services, Inc.Supreme Court of Colorado · 2014
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