Checklist: Are you really self-employed?

These are some of the factors likely to indicate whether or not you are genuinely self-employed:

• whether workers provide their own equipment;

• whether they can provide a replacement to carry out the work;

• >whether they have any helpers;

• whether they are taking on any financial risk;

• whether they receive sick pay or holiday pay;

• whether they are responsible for their own expenses; and

• whether they are responsible for their own tax and National Insurance.

• what the paperwork says (this could be a job advertisement as well as a contract).