Crucial differences in ‘employment’: Aunt MASie explains contractor versus employee

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Crucial differences in ‘employment’: Aunt MASie explains contractor versus employee

Dear Aunt MASie

Wednesday 5 October 2022, 10:17 AM

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A contractor GP has more flexibility than an employed one [image: Felix Rostig on Unsplash]

I’m a GP registrar and I have been offered work as a contractor for next year. I’m not sure whether being a contractor is the correct option for me and wonder if I should be an employee. Can you please explain the difference?

– Unsure, central New Zealand

Historically, many GPs were engaged as contractors but, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the trend was towards GP employees. In the past year, howe

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