Type: Posts; User: joypulv
Looking back through old posts, she is in India. I have a feeling that her friend is too.
But this has a high probability of NOT being 'employment' but 'contract work.' No W4.
If this is the US, he might be able to use the warning that he will turn the employer in to the IRS for failure to treat your friend as an employee instead of contractor. The IRS has strict rules...