NU Online News Service, Oct. 21, 11:42 a.m. EDT
A leader of an Allstate agents group said the insurer, after converting agents to independent contractor status, is treating them like employees, prompting the producers to ask for an Internal Revenue Service probe.
Jim Fish, executive director of the National Association of Professional Allstate Agents, said that in addition to petitioning the federal agency for an investigation, many of the company's 13,000 agents are filing an IRS SS-8 form that seeks "Determination of Worker Status for Purposes of Federal Employment Taxes and Income Tax Withholding."
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