Contractor or Employee: Can you tell the difference?

It is not uncommon for contractors to quite happily agree that they are self employed and so benefit from preferential tax treatments and flexibility during the course of working and then, once the assignment is terminated, seek to make a claim for unfair dismissal on the basis that they were actually an employee.
It is therefore important that whatever the relationship, it is correctly documented in writing and the parties work in accordance with the contract.

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