What do we mean by self-employment, anyway? | Letters

In the skilled trades, the self-employed can earn twice as much as employees on fixed-price projects, says reader Graham Davies.As a self-employed project manager for 20 years I can see from comments in the media from both politicians (Reports, 10 March) and journalists that many assume that the self-employed are paid at the same rate as the employee for the equivalent job.In IT the self-employed are paid typically £300-£1,000 per day depending on grade, broadly double their counterp