I recieve a weekly excel sheet showing compensation from a payroll department. There is comp for a manufacturer's Rep who is not an employee included in it. It is very easy for us to mistake him for a commision salesman of this company and bring him into the Plan.

I want to exclude him and I can see 2 ways to do. I can either create a class or a division of "always excluded". Does anyone see a preference of one over the other?

Exclude by class - all manufacturing reps. You would not be able to benefit any other reps. You can't exclude if he is an employee. Is he really independent contractor?

You need to get the employer to stop sending you information on someone that isn't an employee.

HI Janet: Yes. He is definitely an indepnedant contractor.

Bill, You are right, i'm trying but, I haven't succeeded yet.

For now, I am putting him in a class called excludable as if he were union, etc.

I think Relius will exclude him from testing properly. I haven't had time to check that out yet, though.

If the plan exclude independant contractors then you don't have to exclude you simply ignore him. He should not be in the data so you may have to make a note to delete him before you do any testing.