IfA Now have a policy on Self Employment

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[SIZE=3]Of course I am an archaeologist!!.
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I blame this utter load of rubbish.

http://www.archaeologists.net/sites/default/files/node-files/ifa_code_practice.pdf

last revised 2008. Nowhere does it say how self employed archaeologists are supposed to get on with other archaeologists. In fact the code doesn?t like to use the word self and archaeologist only about ten times in the body of the text. Instead it uses the word member. Members are mentioned 40 times in this text. Now they didn?t always use the word member in this code this has been brought in recently to my understanding.

What the sneaky little plonkers did was to go through the text and replace all the ?An archaeologists? with ?A member?

Luckily concerned this lot have kept a copy of a previous version of the text
http://www.concernedhistorians.org/content/home.html

www.concernedhistorians.org/content_files/file/et/70.pdf

WHY Kevin thinks that he is an archaeologist I don?t know but it now appears that he might like to claim to be a member, possibly you can be both but possibly not.

The big question is What is a member?

There is a apendum to the code
Which tells us

1 A curator is here regarded as a person or organisation
responsible for the conservation and management of
archaeological evidence by virtue of official or statutory
duties.
2 A brief here means a framework for a project; a
specification means a detailed statement of the necessary
works associated with the undertaking of a particular
project; both are normally prepared by or agreed with the
relevant curator.

But it does not tell us what a member is

and it also does not tell us how a member should get on with other members. THIS IS THE PROBLEM.

You can go and look at the code of conduct but again there does not seem to be much member on member action, some aspirational nay rubbish on employment rights of employees, colleagues and helpers. Colleagues and helpers?

They don?t like to give the term archaeologist away.

Kev could you be a helpful colleague.