Dave Meltzer Forced Out Of MMAFighting.Com

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By the government!

Dave Meltzer said:
The California State Legislature passed a law, aimed at cracking down on independent contractors in the state.

But this has affected the journalism field, in that independent contractors in the year 2020 are classified as those who produce less than 35 written submissions over the course of a year. That is a ridiculously low threshold and any written submission, even a blog post, would count against the 35 number.

This will have a major effect on the journalism field. Unfortunately, this looks to end my long association with the MMA Fighting web site. I am very clearly the definition of an independent contractor, I work on topics I like, on my own time, with the general idea of 100 to 150 stories per year.

Obviously with my pro wrestling work and how time consuming it is, there is no way I could work full-time anywhere else, nor would I want to. Vox Media, which owns MMA Fighting, made the decision that if you live in California, you have to be working full-time.

So my long association with MMA Fighting looks to be ending at the end of March.

And it is amazing that a law constructed to keep employers from taking advantage of employees will end up, in the journalism field, due to an ignorant threshold rule, costing so many reporters their positions as part-time reporters all over the state. It’s especially worse for those who financially were in a position to really need it in a field that is difficult to make money in, and even more, for smaller web sites who can’t afford full-time employees and now will have to rely on contributors working for free, which the law evidently doesn’t cover.
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I not sure what is happening here. Are you celebrating a man losing his job?
 
Why would they do this? They want to be able to tax you, and the nanny state believes this is how you protect the "little guys" from being exploited by big business. Classic California move. Micromanagement for a fee that - guess what - you get to pay also. For your protection.





Comrade.
 
Write the story and give it to someone else. Someone else gets paid and gives money back to Meltzer.
 
It sucks for Dave, it sounds like they fucked him over. Too bad, I like Dave. Oh well, at least I still get to hear his opinions on pro wrestling.
 
Another giant corporate company using any excuse they can to cut costs.

Plus I’ve heard Vox has always been horrible to work for.
 
Ocasio wants to tax Amazon so that the government gets it's cut

Instead of just applying laws to housing costs/minimum wage etc...

And yet people are fighting over who to vote for. Government is looking out for government
 
Sounds like the issue is with Vox media, not the law. If he's writing 150 articles for them a year, that's 3 a week. That's a lot. That's worth getting paid like an employee.
 
blaseblah said:
Sounds like the issue is with Vox media, not the law. If he's writing 150 articles for them a year, that's 3 a week. That's a lot. That's worth getting paid like an employee.
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Hes not writing 150 for Vox, hes writing 150 total, most of them for his own website and newsletter
 
kimocomplex said:
Ocasio wants to tax Amazon so that the government gets it's cut

Instead of just applying laws to housing costs/minimum wage etc...

And yet people are fighting over who to vote for. Government is looking out for government
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So you really think Amazon should pay 0 in federal taxes while ordinary people get taxed? Lol
 
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