What Rights Pregnant Freelancers Have
If you’re pregnant, freelancing might be your only income or at the very least, your primary income.
Freelance
McGraw Hill Rejects Calls to Stop Charging Its Freelancers a Fee in Order to Get Paid
The revelation that McGraw Hill (MH), a multibillion-dollar educational publishing company, has begun charging its freelancers and independent contractors a fee in order to get paid has prompted a wave of public outrage, along with a letter from advocacy groups demanding that the company end the practice. The company’s response: No. Two weeks ago, In These Times reported on the existence of the 2.2% fee that the company …
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At a Major Education Company, Freelancers Must Now Pay a Fee In Order to Get Paid
Freelance workers everywhere are subjected to a wide variety of indignities and ripoffs. They are the workers who are most at the mercy of their employers’ whims, and least able to fight back. Now, into the pantheon of freelancer exploitation comes a truly jaw-dropping policy: Forcing freelancers to pay money in order to get paid. McGraw Hill (MH) is …
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Freelancing Ain’t Free
When is the moment in time for a freelance writer that a late payment becomes wage theft, and what do you do about it? For A.J. Springer, who recently moved to the District of Columbia, the line was April 27, 2017, when he went public in a Chicago Tribune news story about the $1,755 owed him at the …
