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There was something on the tellybox about this- might even have been watchdog or similar.

Anyway, the gist of it was that if you define someones working practices to the degree that they wish to do at Sargents then they can call it self employed if they want- but they have to pay the minimum wage for the hours that the person is at work, as it is basically an employed position.

If they actually gave the mech total freedom to do what they wanted then it would be self employed- but there are so many conditions/instructions that there is little question about that being a "boss/employee" relationship- just one that they wish to avoid paying a salary for, or holiday/sickness pay.

this is true but the problem is that it isn't enforced. It's rife across the construction/manual labour industries, and in the courier and private taxi world to effectively force someone to be self employed to get around labour laws.

sargent &co can stick their pretentious ethos