Not quite, it's illegal but not enforced. If you get inspected within 5 years of a relationship like that you might be legally liable to repay all of your ZUS, health contribution and taxes.

And a change like that will likely come, there is a reason why all invoices are now digitalized and reported, most of fake employment relationships are one SQL query away from being found out. Just find people who submit one invoice a month to one client.

You in general don't work for UK companies directly because of the laws around contractors, you have to have proxy companies to skirt the UK law.

If you have one client that you work 9-5 for, in most countries that would be just false employment, both the employer and the "contractor" would see consequences of that.

In most countries operating as a limited company would solve that. The "consequences" as a personal freelancer would involve paying some more tax, which is not desirable, but is an option.

Why would you send specialized submarine search and recovery ships to Mediterranean? If makes zero sense, they serve very different purpose.

Exactly. You use a lot of resources to send help on the other side of the world for people who volunteeringly went to bottom of the ocean knowing risks and just for fun.

But you don't use resources to help people who are forced to leave their country and now are drowning in the sea.

Having worked at companies like that - usually utter incompetence of 'release engineers'.

It's locale-specific, which is not great.

Keep in mind that you'd probably need to be contractor to work for the company (as it costs money to get employer of record, never mention employer contribution) so you should give that amount a hefty discount.

They do open offices and they do pay little compared to the US, but still relatively good for the market.

They watched "Yes, Minister" and took it as a guide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y4PEqvk0Jg

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