self-employed worker
collocation in Englishmeaningsofself-employedandworker
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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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worker
noun[C]
uk/ˈwɜː.kər/us/ˈwɝː.kɚ/
someone who works in a particular job or in a ...
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(Definition ofself-employedandworkerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is in fact very difficult to control any kind ofself-employedworker, artisan or small entrepreneur.
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In addition, one major injury to aself-employedworkerwas reported.
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Where a contractor makes payments relating to construction operations to aself-employedworker, they must operate the scheme.
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We sought in the amendment to ensure that the genuinelyself-employedworkerwould not fall into that category.
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There are new types of worker, half-way between the traditional models of the employee and theself-employedworker.
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Theself-employedworker, however, will often have chosen that status because he considers that he benefits—for example, from the different tax and national insurance regime.
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Aself-employedworkercannot in fact be forced to do extra hours insofar as he is, by definition, free to organise his own work as he wishes.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
It makes no difference whether it is aself-employedworkerwho is pushing himself too hard or an employer that is pushing an employee driver too hard.
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Similar to other sectors, the number of self-employed workers in rural services increased and the number of private employees declined.
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Self-employed workers manage an economic activity in the private sector, yet they do not employ a wage or salary earner.
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There is also the challenge of including self-employed workers, who sometimes are not permitted to make tax-qualified contributions to the system.
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In the same period, the number of self-employed workers increased from 2.8 million to 4.4 million (57%).
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First, the private pension scheme is voluntary for self-employed workers, but obligatory for the rest of the labour force.
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Contribution was also mandatory for self-employed workers who were subject to minimum declared earnings.
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In 1986, only 43,000 of 4.4 million self-employed workers were classified as "scientific, technical, and specialized" worker.
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Self-employed workers are less likely to vote since there is a higher cost to voting - the opportunity cost of their time.
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Both attributes chimed with his strong ethos of selfreliance, which made him comparable to the 'self-employed workers', and like this group, the whole family had been involved in his business.
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T he sample will thus tend to be truncated and self-employed workers can thus be expected to have an average earnings profile steeper than the one of salary workers.
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Unpaid family workers work for their relatives who might be self-employed workers or entrepreneurs.
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