[willcipriano]

They may certainly claim that he wasn't a employee, however he would be working under their explicit direction to accomplish a task they asked him to complete. It doesn't matter one whit how the company classified him, he is a employee from the second he dials into that call. I can't tell you to put a paper hat on and flip burgers then not pay you since "you don't really work here until next week, just thought you might want to get ahead on the burger project."

Consider this, I don't know what this software does but a lot of the conversations around software are confidential. Did they just invite a random stranger into a call with potentially privileged information?