It would depend on what you defined as self employed!! I have a girls who want to be self employed but also want to be paid if no clients !!! eg they work on a Tuesday, Thursday and every other Saturday and they want to be paid for the whole time they are there! SO to me that is technically employed.
It screams want there cake and eat it !!
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Self employment has rules, you can't just decide what 'you call' self employed.
Self employed means:
You set your prices, have your own business name & branding, choose & buy your products, pay your own NI & tax, choose what to wear, when to go on holiday, where & when you work, what treatments you offer (if you don't want to offer waxing or perms you don't have to), you pay your rent to the landlord (either set amount or split), you can ask someone else to do the work you book in (not an employed person within the salon - another freelance tech :wink2
, you decide if your doing offers & what they are, you do your own advertising etc.... So your running your own business under the salon roof.
You CAN'T be self employed and be told you are to work set hours or days. You CAN'T be self employed and paid a set wage if no clients come in. You CAN'T be self employed and told what to wear, what prices to charge or what services you must offer etc...
There is a tool on the HMRCwebsite that will tell you if your self employed or employed and the HMRC do not take it lightly when they find salons that are using the term self employed but are treating the tech's as employed staff. They make the salon pay the NI & tax for those employees & I think they can fine them too.
HM Revenue & Customs: Employment Status Indicator