Answer the following question.

The ethics situation - You've absorbed what is going on at Derby Supplies. You could turn your independent contractors into full time employees, but if you pay them benefits you would have to reduce everyone's salary by 10% (or lay off two of your current administrative staff who have been working for you for twenty years, but perform more ministerial and administrative functions). What would you do? Why?

(Artisans/contracted employees situation in this scenario- As you gear up for Derby season you frequently supplement your full-time staff with a number of artisans, temporary employees who have been working for the company for almost as long as it's been in existence. Now, of the five artisans that you work with, three have been employed by you almost year round, working eleven months out of the year. In that sense, they work almost as much as your full-time employees, because your full-time employees are entitled to one month's vacation (fully paid) every year. The artisans, as temporary employees do not receive vacation benefits, nor do they receive the other benefits you give to your full-time employees: health care benefits, matching retirement savings, life insurance and disability insurance.)