88 Keys Music Studio is a music lesson studio that uses only Independent Contractors to staff it's workforce for guitar, drum, piano, and voice lessons. All of these workers would/will be considered Common Law Employees by IRS standards. The studio is fully aware of this and fires anyone who implies knowledge of their intentional employee misclassification. On top of that the owner is next to impossible to work with, not to mention her staff having to endure incidents of Gross Sexual Imposition, and on-going Sexual Harassment towards her younger male Contractors. She makes it very clear that she is only in business for the money and doesn't care about the well-being of her students or staff members whatsoever.
Myself and several other contractors were fired for questioning her unethical practices (even after we were professional through the sexual harassment situations). The owner then proceeded to trademark the name of the band we created for her company. This was intellectual property we owned as Independent Contractors, as no Work-for-Hire agreement was ever signed. She also has not paid one of the fired contractors over $600 that she owes him. The fired Contractors are having to file suit to reclaim what is legally theirs.
The owner has also made slanderous and untrue statements to any students of the Contractors who have questioned the situation. 88 Keys Music Studio, LLC preys on workers that are not knowledgable of their rights as Independent Contractors, then uses them as employees and forces them to pay their own taxes, which is Fraud. I would never recommend another music teacher ever get involved with this studio.
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