depends on wether they own the vehicle or not,
they can sub to the taxi firm for the switch or they can hire the vehicle and switch and supply labour ony
after about 6 months continious work they are deemed to be an employee
there are all kinds of ways around this, providing your services as a consultant is one of them, regular change of employer is another
the sevice industry is the hardest to prove self employment in but wc is one of the easist if you have a round as you tick all the boxes for self employment....................... providing its your round, if its someone elses round you are employed by them to clean the windows for their customers using their equipment
so the way round it is
to franchise'
rent the work only
have them as self employed subbies but thers a very fine line between subbies and employees, the subbies will have to tick the selfemployment boxes for their other work
a lot of people get away with subbing parts of their round and and supplying the van to do it but the subbie genarally supplies own tools , fuel etc and if he loses a customer its his loss , he wont still get paid for not doing them, so he carries the risk if work drops , so he still ticks some of the boxes
its when you cant tick any of the boxes you lose your self empoymet status and become an employee