New Approach to IDES Audits!!!

The Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) is now doing many more "follow-up audits"!!!  This means that your clients who have been audited before by the IDES have a much higher likelihood of being audited again in the near future. Also keep in mind that the IDES is using 60% fraud penalties for Illinois companies who have failed to restructure their operations after being audited by the IDES.

  

In view of this changed situation, contact your clients who use independent contractors and make sure they understand this frightening new climate!! 

 

If any of your clients want to meet with me (by phone or in person) to review their independent contractor relationships, consider ways to lower liability in using independent contractors, go over websites which comment on their independent contractors, restructure or redraft independent contractor agreements, I would be glad to work with both you and them. These are new times. Government is growing ever more hostile and aggressive about independent contractor relationships.

 

 

 

Nancy Joerg offers cost-effective consultations with accountants and their clients on any legal issue or concern involving independent contractor status (or other employment law issues such as hiring, firing, terminations of employees, employee handbooks, unemployment insurance IDES claims and hearings, sex harassment, overtime issues, Department of Labor wage and hour overtime audits, etc.).

Nancy drafts and revises independent contractor agreements and also assist accountants and their clients in evaluating the liability of a certain company in its use of independent contractors. She also assists them in IRS defense, IRS Form SS-8 situations, etc.

Contact Attorney Nancy E. Joerg, Managing Shareholder of the St. Charles Illinois office of Wessels Sherman, who enjoys a nationwide reputation in working with companies who use Independent Contractors of all types.  Nancy Joerg can be reached at 630-377-1554 or email her at najoerg@wesselssherman.com

Nancy Joerg has been selected for the second year in a row to the 2016 Illinois Super Lawyers list. She has the highest rating - 10.0 SUPERB - from Avvo.  She has been honored by her peers as a "Leading Lawyer." Nancy was named as one of the Top Ten Women Attorneys in Kane, Kendall & DeKalb counties. In February 2016, she was honored by Chicago Magazine as a "Top Attorney in Illinois."