Freelance, or employee?

Are freelancers in fact employees? John Sisson, a freelance writer based in Massachusetts, was told by a client that it would no longer hire him to do work for it because of a change in Massachusetts employment law that would open it to being sued. The law was meant to protect workers who were being misclassified as non-employees, denying them benefits. But Sisson’s client, Pearson Educdation, decided to interpret the law more broadly, because of the way it was written. Sisson says freelancers need to check on their own state laws to see if they,  too, are in danger of losing work. Sisson writes about the issue in his blog, misclassified.