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Originally Posted by lorenavedon
I don't think some of you are aware of what a contractor is. They're basically an employee like everybody else but they run their money through their incorporated company first before paying themselves. It's just another way of getting paid. EPCMs prefer paying regular employees as contractors as they avoid all the hassles of a staffed employee (benefits, 2 weeks layoff notice, vacation time, sick time, etc). Almost every job I've had the company would insist that if I didn't have my own company they would pay to set it up for me just so they could hire me as a contractor instead of in a staff position. This is extremely common in Alberta. I've had interviews where they said that they wouldn't even consider hiring anyone on staff and that if I wasn't incorporated to not even bother.
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As someone who works exclusively with a large EPC when cost savings came down the pipeline contactors were eliminated for the most part and it is a skeleton perm employees who are left. The hiring that does happen has been focused on perm employees. There are a couple of contractors still who cover mat leaves and what not but it is not like it used to be. This is on the finance and accounting side of the business I can't speak for engineering side.