If you pay by the hour you likely have an employee

Did you know if you pay a babysitter or gardner by the hour (as opposed to a fixed price
for a job) you really have an employee? This means that if you use them for 5 hours
per week you really need to set up workers compensation insurance,
payroll withholding and put up all the anti-discrimination notices to
inform your "employee" of his/her rights. But here is a law that
is almost universally ignored except for a few folks that want to be
President or on his cabinet.

If the government wants to jumpstart this economy lets greatly streamline
and simplify this process. I for one would start hiring but absent this - I
will avoid my next employee like the plague.