7th May 2014, 09:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 7th May 2014, 10:32 AM by Marc Berger.)
I Wax agree that you can work as a digger under HMRC guidelines but you are just making it more troublesome if you get contracts through employment adverts which have employment terms in them. Could you say what guidelines that you were able to meet as a "digger". I definitely think that the one man bands banding together is an important model for the future of archaeology.
Although I agree that if you have some form of insurance it helps qualify somebody as self employed where I struggle with insurance is what is it for? particularly public. The fact is that it is not my land that I might be working on. Most owners have public liability as part of their buildings insurance and if I trip over their archaeology I would image that they would be my first line of inquiry. If anything any digger going onto somebody else's land should inquire if the landowners have any insurance. Where you take out health/life insurance is really not about being an archaeologist.
Although I agree that if you have some form of insurance it helps qualify somebody as self employed where I struggle with insurance is what is it for? particularly public. The fact is that it is not my land that I might be working on. Most owners have public liability as part of their buildings insurance and if I trip over their archaeology I would image that they would be my first line of inquiry. If anything any digger going onto somebody else's land should inquire if the landowners have any insurance. Where you take out health/life insurance is really not about being an archaeologist.
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist