When a corporate executive, a self-employed contractor, a middle manager, and a school administrator get together, it's no wonder they see things differently.

At which point would this cleaner be considered an employee rather than a self-employed contractor?

The company said that the agent in question was a self-employed contractor who was immediately dismissed.

On his return, as an electrical mechanic, he worked for a number of companies until becoming a self-employed contractor and company director in 1961.

One government department managed part of its workload with self-employed contractors on short-term contracts, who often stayed for years.