GDG- Tour guide group to fight new rules at Gettysburg Battlefield

[James Cameron]

<< Hhmm, I wouldn't entirely agree with that - one can also be a licensee 
AND an IC, as in my career.  I'm quite familiar with the laws and 
definitions concerning licensees and IC, having been involved in legal cases 
of   a company, with whom I'm licenses, attempting to treat me (and other 
such insurance brokers) as an "employee" without having to pay the resulting 
expenses such as payroll, staff, payroll taxes, etc.  There is only a fine 
line between "licensee" and "independent contractor" (as this very issue 
came up in front of the courts and was stated as such by the judge) and in 
my opinion the Guides are as much IC's as they are licensees.

Coincidentally, I just put a post on my blog tonite on this very subject 
when I read the Gettysburg Times article in yesterday's issue about the 
Guides leaving the new Visitor Center and setting up their own headquarters. 
 >>

Reading the article, which a Guide well know to many on this board cautions 
is not 100% accurate, and which I suspect contains, as many articles on 
labor/management disputes (which this isn't exactly, but bears some 
similarity to) an element of posturing and spin, I suspect that despite all 
that being said this dispute will resolve itself in due course.  Regardless 
of where the Guides are headquartered, they still need the new VC, since 
realistically most tours will start there, and the Park needs the Guide 
force.  The interdependence of the two mandates a mutual accommodation.


Jim Cameron