On: California’s Assembly Bill 5 came for me today

[enjoyyourlife]

Why is the Editor-in-Chief being classified as an independent contractor?

[kasey_junk → enjoyyourlife]

Probably because they do piece work on their own time with flexible hours and no set schedule?

[heavyset_go → kasey_junk]

Plenty of people who are employees have flexible hours and no set schedules.

[pcmonk → heavyset_go]

This is SB Nation, they have >100 separate sites (one per sports team in the leagues they cover, plus some extras), and they each have an "editor-in-chief" which is specific to that site and manages that community. It's not always their day job, as in this case it isn't.

[Retric → pcmonk]

Part time employees can work 5 hours a week. That’s got nothing to do with the employe vs contractor decide. Unless your ‘contractors’ are doing the same thing for multiple clients over the year, their probably employees.

If in doubt: https://www.oregon.gov/ODA/shared/Documents/Publications/Nat...

[kasey_junk → heavyset_go]

I’m not an AB 5 expert so don’t know what the qualifications are nor the exemptions but piece work is a classic marker of IC work.

I don’t know that I’m for that but it’s common enough that changing it would of course cause strife.

[tantalor → kasey_junk]

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[kasey_junk → tantalor]

Yeah changed to gender neutral pronouns as I should have written it in the first place. Thanks.

[scarejunba → enjoyyourlife]

Because that's what he would prefer.