Regarding mutual agreement: where I live it is often the case that the employee-to-be asks to be contracted rather than employed.
If you are an employee, you get your salary and pay your normal income tax, and the employer pays for your social security to the state.
If you are self-employed by your single-person enterprise, and work as a contractor, you can invoice the total amount described above. Then you give yourself a salary (minimal to keep the social security costs AND your income tax low), and after what is left, you pay your own corporate tax, but this one depends on what expenses you can prove, by which you decrease your profit. There are proven practices for this. (excuse me my lacking knowledge of English financial terms, I hope the story is still clear)
The whole point is trying to save for your own pocket as much as you can from the money that would normally end up in the big pocket of the state. Aside from the obvious reason (that the more money you have the better) people choose to do this also because they feel that money in the big pocket will very seldom be used as it should.
Yes, I live in the eastern part of Central Europe.
In my view an employment contract is a negotiation like any other. Employers seek someone (maybe you) fulfilling their requirements, and you set your conditions under which you take on the job. If you are good at what they want you to do, then you can demand that they be good at letting you do it the way you like it.
I also believe that a piece of software developed by a paid programmer is often just a tool enabling the business processes to change for the better. The real benefit will come from the changed process and not from being able to sell the developed piece of SW. So it should often be a workable relationship that the programmer remains the owner of the SW (and makes it open source if s/he wishes so), and the employer uses the product to improve the business. No one's children should starve to death in the process 8^).
You don't HAVE to "upgrade" to something you don't like just because it is new and gets all the hype. Use Netscape 4.7 as long as that one is the best version there is for you. (like for me)
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Regarding mutual agreement: where I live it is often the case that the employee-to-be asks to be contracted rather than employed.
If you are an employee, you get your salary and pay your normal income tax, and the employer pays for your social security to the state.
If you are self-employed by your single-person enterprise, and work as a contractor, you can invoice the total amount described above. Then you give yourself a salary (minimal to keep the social security costs AND your income tax low), and after what is left, you pay your own corporate tax, but this one depends on what expenses you can prove, by which you decrease your profit. There are proven practices for this. (excuse me my lacking knowledge of English financial terms, I hope the story is still clear)
The whole point is trying to save for your own pocket as much as you can from the money that would normally end up in the big pocket of the state. Aside from the obvious reason (that the more money you have the better) people choose to do this also because they feel that money in the big pocket will very seldom be used as it should.
Yes, I live in the eastern part of Central Europe.
In my view an employment contract is a negotiation like any other. Employers seek someone (maybe you) fulfilling their requirements, and you set your conditions under which you take on the job. If you are good at what they want you to do, then you can demand that they be good at letting you do it the way you like it.
I also believe that a piece of software developed by a paid programmer is often just a tool enabling the business processes to change for the better. The real benefit will come from the changed process and not from being able to sell the developed piece of SW. So it should often be a workable relationship that the programmer remains the owner of the SW (and makes it open source if s/he wishes so), and the employer uses the product to improve the business. No one's children should starve to death in the process 8^).
You don't HAVE to "upgrade" to something you don't like just because it is new and gets all the hype. Use Netscape 4.7 as long as that one is the best version there is for you. (like for me)