Hire a short-term employee to cover your employee's job, not an "independent" contractor. If your motivation for not doing so is cost, then ask yourself why - where is the saving being made?
The rules are utterly sensible, falling in line with the worker/employee rights rules (albeit they're...
Matt Le Tissier* was born and grew up in Guernsey, a Crown Dependency which sits outside of UK fiscal territory...
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* and, indeed, the unrelated BHA player Maya Le Tissier.