Vox Media said yesterday it would end contracts with hundreds of freelance writers and editors in California who covered sports for SB Nation as the company comes into compliance with California's new employment law. suhaunah reports:
have been scrambling to understand how their livelihoods may be affected after it takes effect Jan. 1. Now some are finding out.
In a memo to 2,000 SB Nation contractors scattered across the country — most of whom will not be affected by the changes — Ness explained that, under the law, California freelance writers can maintain their status as independent contractors only if they submit no more than 35 pieces per year. Given the pace of sports blogging, many of the writers producing work for SB Nation’s California blogs would easily hit that benchmark, the source said.
She wrote that she didn’t blame SB Nation for doing “the easiest thing they can to comply with California law.”
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