She was doing work for a benefit. It wasn’t cash, but it had value. If that wasn’t work, and therefore not taxable, everyone would just switch to getting paid in services and benefits that aren’t cash.
She was treated extremely harshly but she was working illegally. There are lots of digital nomads that do similar. They work in places where they are staying on a tourist visa, it’s illegal. I run a small business. When I am away on holidays overseas, my staff need to be paid. I log in and pay them while away. Technically that is in breach of my visa for most countries, I’d say.
It’s said to see factual comments like yours getting downvoted, because some just don’t want to hear this truth.
It doesn’t mean you support these kind of things happening, just that you understand the reasons they’re doing this shit…
And @ all the haters, get a life… you can disagree with the current rules, and how they’re enforced, but you can’t deny reality.
Yep, ive applied for visas in many countries and loved in multiple, long term. You follow the rules or risk being deported. I’ve friends that were deported, and friends that took advantage of amnesties when they were available.
I know there are au pair visas in some countries to allow similar work with few restrictions and payment in kind. However, I think they mainly include child care.
What all those who think she shouldn’t have to follow the vis rules aren’t aware of is that she’s likely undercutting those that followed the rules and also that human trafficking takes advantage of people in arrangements like these and use your visa breach as leverage. Less commonly for people from countries like the UK, but it can happen to anyone.
It’s fine to hate on the oppressive state of America at the moment but those in breach of their visa conditions are not the best martyrs for a cause. The ones unfairly prosecuted for non visa breaches, like ethnicity and sexual orientation are what we need to fight.
You’re an idiot.
Yea, no. This is only considered ‘work’ if you’re a physics teacher.
That’s the most stupid thing I’ve ever heard in my life.
You absolutely do not need to do anything to pay your staff it’s just a standing order bank transaction.
Lol, you clearly have never done payroll. Payslips need to be generated timesheets entered and payments need to be authorized. Not all staff work full time or work on a fixed schedule, so set and forget a standing bank order is not viable. I would imagine that’s the case for most companies and businesses that employ hourly paid employees. Salried positions are generally in offices but even then they can vary.
You’re still not paying them from a personal account so you’re not doing business. Business accounts are not tied to a person, they’re tied to the company so their example makes no sense. Also that’s not a correct interpretation of the law anyway, because obviously the law wouldn’t work like that because it would be fucking stupid.
so your rationale for believing this person is wrong about a foreign country’s laws, with notoriously complex immigration law, is that “it would be stupid”
i just feel like i need to point out how stupid these replies are, because if we have no sense of the truth, believing you over the other guy is just as stupid.
stop arguing immigration law online, talk to a lawyer
POS bootlicker
That’s not work? That’s common courtesy! You stay at someones house so you help out.
If they are a friend. If you’re doing so as a trade, then it’s not a courtesy, it’s a transaction.
If their is a contract it’s work.
Another POS bootlicker.
stembolts@programming.dev 2 days ago
I feel like only one person calling you stupid isn’t enough, so I’d like to add that this is one of the stupidest collections of words I have ever read.
I really hope you say things like this in person, and confidently. After all the world needs humor.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 days ago
stupidity has nothing to do with it. are they right or wrong? sorry, but the facts matter here and I’m not trusting popular opinion to figure out immigration law
this place feels more like reddit
Snowclone@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Google it. You’ll find out immigration law is a very amorphous place and when the people who make you legal or not also deport you they’re zero accountability. Trump already said to cancel all legal status of south Sudanese immigrations. That’s legal immigrants. He just decided they aren’t any more. No one’s talking about how entirely bullshit this is.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
i was about to write an actual response but honestly, it’s entirely likely “you” aren’t even even a real person so i’m just going to tell anyone reading this to eat more fibre for better gut health.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 day ago
fuck off with that dehumanizing shit. you can write off dissonant perspectives with whatever rationalization you want but dont call me a fucking bot