Agree reporters can be lazy still wonder why reporters who previously focused on work-related medical aspect are omitting it on the eve of voting day articles.

Have to disagree on the significance of prop60 pass/fail.

Source to end recordkeeping has been challenged to the supreme court where it became an accepted business practice. Porn won’t get a pass on 1A grounds even if they get the bi-annual licensing overturned.

Almost seems like the voters are being asked to do what Porn has refused to do by distinguishing porn production (cramming) as a regulated (accepted mainstream) workplace vs other sex-work.

Go back to circa 2004 when testing was touted as the difference between porn production and escort/prostitution and you’ll find the studies done to refute that talking point. Since then with the rise of social media and consumer participation at ‘awards’ events performers are encouraged to market their availability for ‘production’ by announcing their ‘clean test’

I know for a fact this wasn’t lost on folks for/against exotica coming to Columbus at the end of August. Legislators across the US are watching Prop60 as are municipalities. Don’t forget HOA (Homeowner Assoc) lobbyists who want porn production recognized in their state as a commercial business they can enforce as an exclusion. Some HOA have already written language to define cramming from home like a home office…. it’s all good as long as the Tele-commuter or CPA etc. doesn’t advertise, hang a sign, start bringing clients or noticed traffic around. Doubt I need to say how fast a HOA can shut down ‘model house’ or AirBnB situations.

Cities with wage taxes want to tap the hidden gold in their jurisdiction. Paying by 1099 doesn’t deter them, it’s actually a resource. 1099 are a paper trail with a social security number and the backing of state and federal treasury departments to help them collect.

Now for the kicker. Prop60 is tied to OSHA who uses a Full Time Equivalent formula to determine if a establishment meets the threshold for enforcement. Be it plumbing, cleaning, landscape, window cleaning or porn production if the employer meets criteria for x number employees and complaint is filed OSHA must follow through. Doesn’t matter if the cleaning company only sends two or three contracted workers to a site if the employing establishment meets OSHA minimum employee prerequisites.

OSHA and Worker’s Comp can team up to meet targeted enforcement goals as they have for construction and other rogue businesses. Door to door (magazine) sales is a good example of OSHA ability to solidify opaque workplaces.

Reading a few recent articles lowered my opinion of some longtime reporters and raised the question of how or why they all conveniently omitted the requirement for producers to pay for vaccines and testing.

If the person they were interviewing was a dentist who was going to put his or her ungloved hand into their mouth while he did a 6 month checkup or a urologist who was going to do a prostate exam without a glove, they’d be outraged, even if the dentist and urologist argued that it was an infringement on their freedoms. For whatever reason, porn is looked at differently than any other industry.