A service segment of the Payrolling/Compliance Industry, compliance describes the ability to act legally, following a set of rules so that parties are not exposed to any specific legal and/or financial risk related to the sourcing, recruiting, hiring and/or management of contingent workers. Compliance services will evaluate processes and worker status to ensure that companies have commercially viable risk mitigation programs in place with regard to the classification of independent contractors. Depending on the legislative environment within a particular country, employee misclassification risk (and the liabilities imposed) can vary as it relates to the independent contractor, the staffing intermediary and the end-user.