What are my rights as a sex worker?

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Most sex workers in businesses work as independent contractors. This means the business doesn’t pay your PAYE tax for you, and doesn’t provide other benefits you’d get as an employee, for example sick leave or annual leave.
However, you might be an employee without realising it. The law on whether someone is a contractor or employee says each case has to be looked at and see what’s really happening in the working relationship. Just because the employer says that you’re a contractor and not an employee, that doesn’t mean that legally you’re not an employee. What’s important is how close to the heart of the business your work is.
Employees have a lot more rights than contractors. Even if you’re an independent contractor - or if your boss thinks you are - you have lots of workers’ rights that your boss must respect.
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