SCENARIO

Maria has an annual contract with Morneau Insurance Company to provide property maintenance services; this includes lawn care, snow removal and parking lot maintenance. Maria spends, on average, 20 hours per week working at the companys premises and is paid a flat amount monthly. She hires part-time workers, when necessary, to assist her. Maria does not have any other clients.

Maria uses her own small tools; however the company supplies and maintains a riding lawn mower and a snow plow for her use. Her contact at the company is Paul Lane, the Facilities Manager, who meets with her every Monday to discuss the work to be done that week. Paul approves Marias monthly invoices and submits them to Accounts Payable.

Does Maria have a contract of service or a contract for service with Morneau Insurance Company? As the companys Payroll Manager, explain to Paul the process and factors you used to make your decision.

Prepare your response (350 500 words) using your name, correct spelling, grammar and punctuation. You will be penalized if you are excessively over or under the suggested word count. Your response to this question must be stated in your own words and should be based on the course material, your experiences, knowledge gained through the course and at least one external government resource.

You can copy and paste text from another program into the platform, however you will be unable to copy tables created in Word or Excel. Please utilize the platforms built-in editing tools to format your text.

Any responses taken directly from the external government resource or course material will not be accepted. Information referenced from the government resource(s) and the course material must be cited. For example:

if you are referencing the Canada Revenue Agencys Employers' Guide - Payroll Deductions and Remittances T4001, state the URL where the information can be found, https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publications/publications/t4001.html and the page number, if applicable

if you are referencing the course material, state the course name, chapter and page number where the information can be found (for example, PCL, 1-1)