Contractors paid as contractors

[salonfrog]

Is anyone doing this?

For a contractor, rather than agreeing a percentage split of the income (say 60/40) or renting a chair/room at a fixed price (say £25 per day), the salon is simply paying the stylist an hourly rate to perform their duties - however the stylist is definitely self employed (i.e they have a self employed contract, can choose when they work and invoice the salon for the hours they've worked).

So I'm not talking here about a salon treating an employee as a contractor - the stylist really is a contractor.

Be really interested to see.

 

[BannerPenguin]

Different industry but I do contract work for other Digital Agencies here and in the US every month and it works very well

 

[Minkeybox]

From chatting to clients that work in other industries (marketing & finance being two of them) it sounds like this is a pretty normal set up.

Seems its mainly the hair & beauty industry where the lines get blurred & ‘self employment’ is used as a ruse by some employers to get out of paying hol pay, sick pay & nmw (whether intentionally or not..)


Personally, I pay a monthly rent to my ‘landlord’ aka salon owner (salon is not hair/beauty but tanning) xx