IfA Now have a policy on Self Employment

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[SIZE=3]c) Although it is up to a person how much the charge themselves out at, it has to be remembered that the less they charge, the less others charge, then they will have to charge even less.... etc. Like Employed rates, I strongly believe that there should also be SE minima below which you don't go, as it will harm all of us in the long term.

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This is illegal. It is exactly the same as companies getting together to set any rate.

How I see the situation is that one archaeologist needs other archaeologist to undertake field work. What we need are explicit agreements that maintain the integrity of both archaeologists so that there can be no confusion that one is employing the other but rather that it is the owner of the archaeology who is paying individual archaeologists to undertake the excavation and interpretation.