self-employed contractor

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self-employed
adjective
uk
/ˌself.ɪmˈplɔɪd/
us
/ˌself.ɪmˈplɔɪd/
not working for an employer but finding work for yourself or having your ...
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contractor
noun[C]
uk
/kənˈtræk.tər/
us
/ˈkɑːn.træk.tɚ/
a person or company that arranges to supply materials or workers for building or for ...
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Busch also returned as aself-employedcontractor, fulfilling a specialist animal handler role at the facility.
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On his return, as an electrical mechanic, he worked for a number of companies until becoming aself-employedcontractorand company director in 1961.
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The substance of a ruling is to determine whether an individual is an employee or aself-employedcontractor.
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Many of them are employed by oil companies and contractors, and have been forced to become self-employed contractors to maintain their livelihoods.
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They have all been self-employed contractors to the health service.
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But general practitioners, as self-employed contractors, would have to pay for any retraining themselves.
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However, his new stealth tax on self-employed contractors is destroying all that.
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This also has the benefit of generating a whole lot of permanent employment for a number of small, self-employed contractors.
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An example of legislation that cannot be monitored and is therefore poor is the new attempt to tell self-employed contractors how long they may work.
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The question we must answer today is this: should self-employed contractors be subject to restrictions on working time on the same terms as employees?
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General practitioners are independent self-employed contractors to the national health service and, as employers, are responsible for the salaries of their staff, including practice managers.
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Examples are local authority staff, security guards and self-employed contractors, who, because of the nature of their work and where it takes place, come into contact with crime.
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Family practitioner services are provided by self-employed contractors, so the information given in the following tables relates to hospital and community health services.
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General practitioners are independent self-employed contractors to the national health service and are themselves responsible for the appointment of their staff.
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General practitioners, as self-employed contractors, have responsibility for ensuring where appropriate, that they hold medical insurance.
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It will be for them to consider the concept of reasonable accommodation and how that might apply to relations between businesses and their arm's length self-employed contractors.
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He will be aware that they are in a slightly different position as independent self-employed contractors, and as such they will not be covered by the list.
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The nail-makers were thus mainly self-employed contractors, working in their own small forges on iron brought in from the large producers.
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