The extraordinary regularization promoted by the Government between April and June of this year has opened a direct door to self-employment for thousands of foreigners in Spain. This is a legal terrain full of edges, where opportunity coexists with risks such as precariousness, fraud or tensions for small companies that hire them or commission them for services. The result could be a more diverse RETA (Special Regime for Self-Employed Workers), filled with new self-employed workers with provisional permits. However, the line that separates self-employment from disguised labor employment is not always clear, since in practice there are gray areas and ambiguous relationships that can hide a true employment relationship, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO) in its report Disguised Employment/Economically Dependent Self-Employment. Continue reading
