\u201cWe\u2019re working in an industry that is perceived as frivolous, and so our concerns are not taken seriously,\u201d argues Ziff. \u201cBut we\u2019re still doing a job, and we should be treated fairly, just like anyone else who works for a living. So we shouldn\u2019t have to endure sexual abuse.\u201d
\nWe don\u2019t know just how many U.S. workers today are classified as independent contractors, or just how many ostensibly non-employment arrangements would stand up as such under scrutiny. (The federal Department of Labor, which commissioned a 2000 study suggesting that between 10 and 30 percent of employers misclassify employees, is reportedly working on a new one.) But progressives point to a range of industries in which contracting has become increasingly prevalent. The National Employment Law Project\u2019s Catherine Ruckelshaus ticks off a series: janitorial; home healthcare; drywall; restaurants. \u201cThey\u2019re not really running their own, independent, economically self-sufficient business,\u201d argued Ruckelshaus; in some cases, \u201cit\u2019s just one worker,\u201d cleaning \u201ca floor, or a restaurant, or a building. But they\u2019re being called independent contractors.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWe\u2019re working in an industry that is perceived as frivolous, and so our concerns are not taken seriously,\u201d argues Ziff. \u201cBut we\u2019re still doing a job, and we should be treated fairly, just like anyone else who works for a living. So we shouldn\u2019t have to endure sexual abuse.\u201d We don\u2019t know just how many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2012,2011,613,1797,2010,2014,334,1253,1750,794,2009,789,1036,622,2013],"class_list":["post-11246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-catherine-ruckelshaus","tag-independent-contractors","tag-labour","tag-labour-issues","tag-labour-law","tag-model-quote","tag-modelling","tag-qotd","tag-quote","tag-rights","tag-salon","tag-sara-ziff","tag-the-model-alliance","tag-usa","tag-workers-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11248,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246\/revisions\/11248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/map.model.world\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}