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Yeah and a normal employee can actually be fired. But independent contractors are usually on completely different contracts so unless the contract actually says they have to start at 9:00 a.m. they don't have to do anything. Refusing to start at 9:00 a.m. is not a breach of contract like it would be for an employee.
I'm a contractor because the company that I contracted for is far too cheap to actually pay full-time staff, I tend to get in around 10am ish (although one time I started at 4:00 am because for some reason I had loads of energy and couldn't sleep but then I finished it like 11am so I still did short hours).
As long as a contractor does the work there isn't really much else they can complain about unless the employer puts other stuff into the contract. It sounds like in this case they didn't.
In the US requiring a schedule is one of the factors that's considered when determining if a contactor should be an employee. Other factors include if you're telling them how to do the job, or who provides the equipment. You can get in trouble if you're hiring people as contractors that should be employees.
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee