Hi, sorry this is my experience with Superprof, but they don't have a community discussion like here.

It is about learning a language via online classes which applies to the italki community, and I'm wondering if anyone knows the law better than me.

I am a foreign student living in France. Recently, I started taking French lesson with a prof via Skype. I paid for the 10 hours of classes through the site, and we have done a few. She says that now I am an employer to her and sent me this link : <a href="https://www.superprof.fr/blog/cheque-emploi-service-universel/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 204);">https://www.superprof.fr/blog/cheque-emploi-service-universel/</a>;. This site does say hiring someone to do work makes you an employer if the classes are at home (un employer particulier). Our classes are online, and she doesn’t come to my house. So, I don’t think it fits perfectly to my situation, but I can’t find a site that says that online classes don’t make you an employer.

So that I don’t have to declare, she says another student can declare the hours for me, and all I have to do is when we do the classes, I agree to say that the classes are at my house. I think saying that would actually make me an employer according to French law and also this is a fraud.

1 Is there a site or somewhere that says that hiring someone to give me online classes doesn’t make me an employer? 

It’s hard to believe that every student learning online would declare their professor as their employees.

The classes were 3h/week, and we have no contract. The professor didn’t say anything about declaring when we started the course.

When I talked to Superprof, the site where I found the teacher, they said the declaration is advised, but I needed to talk to URSSAF directly. It's hard to believe Superprof because they have given wrong advice on a blog once.

My French is also not good enough to contact URSSAF. (I think my prof knows that thus she tried to take advantage of me) Also, I want a wrtiten proof so that my prof won't say things like, "oh she probably didnt understand the fisc.)

Thank you for reading.