Starting a cleaning business and have a question about hiring a part-time employee? -

Ok, so a buddy of mine and I are thinking of putting together a General PArtnership or an LLC to begin a cleaning business. In any case, we would want someone eventually to be doing the majority of the cleaning work while we manage the overall business growth etc. This at first especially will be very much part time work. So how do we hire someone without having to worry about paying benefits, or being responsible for workers compensation etc..? Is this possible? it had got to be. Especially if the person is working only a part-time. I know there is the whole employee vs independent contractor things as well..not sure how that plays into this. BAsically I am looking for the easiest, and cheapest way to hire a part time worker to help us out.

don t bother with an LLC, too much money and too much bother for no bigger than you are or will beif you want to do it correctly you would pay him wages, thereby getting an EIN # and filing your taxes properlyor as most housecleaning and landscape maintenance do, everyone working is an independent contractoras such they also file their own Sch c and Sch SE(pay their own self employment tax, approx 15.3% of the net ) and their own income tax depending on how much this 1099 affects the rest of their tax return