3/06/16 - Pay freelancers — or pay a legal price
ASA Client Sara Horowitz, Freelancers Union Founder and Executive Director, in conjunction with Councilman Brad Lander, wrote this powerful Op-Ed for the NY Daily News.
"For freelance theater technician Lily Meyer, the hardest part of her job isn’t the long hours or demanding work environment. The hardest part is getting paid."
"As she found out after a client failed to pay her for $10,000 of work she’d already done, there is little recourse for independent workers when they’ve been stiffed."
"Sadly, Meyer’s story is all too common among those who work “by the gig” — like graphic designers, web developers, writers, musicians, photographers — whose ranks have swelled from 20 million to over 30 million in the past 15 years, rising to almost 18 percent of all jobs. Freelancing is especially big in New York City, with over 1.3 million freelancers."