In this article, you can read about Subcontractors, also known as employees in the system, who do not have a salary but rather have to invoice their business.
Sometimes, you want to hire a consultant or self-employed person to work with a customer. In such cases, the employee shall not have a salary but instead, invoice your business for the work done. This is possible to implement in the RecMan. It is similar to a regular staffing assignment, with a few changes.
Link to business
To make an employee a subcontractor, there is one simple thing to do. You must associate the employee with a business in the CRM. This typically becomes the business of the consultant where they are hired from.
For candidate:
You can associate the candidate with a business by going to the Employ option on the candidate card:
In this field, you simply search for the company to which the future employee is to be assigned.
For Employee:
If the candidate has been already employed and you wish to add a Subcontractor go to the Employment tab.
Click on Add or Edit the Employment buttons and find the field for Subcontractor.
Differences
The differences between a regular employee and a subcontractor are very few. This is only clear when paying a salary. The subcontractor will register hours as usual, and the hours must be approved. The hours registered must then be run thru Payroll and created for paychecks.
Once you have created a paycheck, it becomes visible under Paychecks, but then through a separate filter called Employee type: Subcontractor. The paycheck that remains here becomes the invoice for the period.
Note that the subcontractor will be able to log in and register hours as another employee, but where other employees have Paychecks, they will be able to see invoices.