The work contract, and through it self-employment, constitutes a mode of employment of one's personal services that meets the needs of an increasingly technological and innovative market. However, the current socio-economic context sometimes makes use of contractual solutions that place the self-employed worker in an asymmetrical legal position in which the autonomy and independence that ideally characterise him or her is essentially lost. It is possible, then, to speak of false self-employed workers who derive only disadvantages from autonomy and independence.