There's also an increasing trend of freelancing or other "self employed" type work.
With the help of the English Collective of Prostitutes, a handful of women are preparing to challenge this, arguing that the EU courts have ruled that self employed sex work is legitimate in terms of the right to stay in the country.
Another area of expansion is transport, which is where so many of the newly minted self employed are working, whether as Uber drivers or delivering parcels for the growing number of online-only shops.
There will be a number of exemptions including removing the need for self employed entitled people working fewer than eight hours a week to need a licence.
An independent midwife is a self employed qualified practitioner working outside the NHS.
The lack of insurance coverage may result in self employed workers returning to work earlier regardless of the nature of their injury or the presence of pre-injury co-morbidities.
Regarding occupation, we asked the participants to choose from pre-coded categories: employed, working a part-time job, self-employed, housewife, no occupation, or other.
However, it may be important to add a comment that this approach does not value the time of people not in paid work, even though many are productive members of society, e.g. self employed farmers, or unpaid house works.
Participants who reported co-morbidities at study entry and were self employed had 2.63 times less time off work than similar participants who worked for an employer.
Q I have £24,000 of credit card/personal loan debt and, as I'm self employed and do not get the work load I did even a year ago, have found it impossible to keep up payments to creditors.
