These questions are listed and analyzed extensively in the ICCA's book on these issues. Also here is a brief summary.

The most important thing to remember is that reclassification is usually the client's or broker's fault, not the contractor's fault, contrary to what brokers may say. The client and broker both must avoid treating the contractor as their own employee; otherwise they're asking for some of what Microsoft had to go through. We'll add more info here later on how to handle this properly. For now, here is a draft of a sample contract supplement that could be used to help with this situation. It is intended for informational purposes only and not to be used verbatim in actual contracts, since it has not been reviewed by a lawyer.

As an example of the other extreme, the dreaded, infamous "NACCB Standard Contract" is so one-sided that it would most likely greatly increase the risks of reclassification, even though it's promoted to NACCB members as decreasing those risks.