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APAG Union @apagunion negotiates AB5 exception for webcam models

APAG Union — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 23:49:53 +0000

Today Alana Evans, president of the Adult Performs Actors Guild announced some big news. They’ve been working with government officials to get webcam models an exception from AB5. This is huge for webcam models in California, who in January lost the ability to make money through webcam sites who were forced to comply with the new […]

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Repeal AB5: CA Freelancers Organize Massive Pushback to Gig Economy Misinformation Campaign

xxxReporter — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:30:22 +0000

The denizens of Porn Valley, like many thousands of freelancers in California, have been struggling under AB5, the idiotic, destructive “gig economy” law that was ramrodded through the state legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Now, as this terrible idea is being brought before the US Congress to crush independent contracts nationwide, there’s a […]

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Merry Christmas @MissBibiNoel … You’re Fired – Says Streamate

porn news — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 10:27:17 +0000

Imagine waking up and finding out you just lost your job. The money you needed to make to pay your bills gone — in an instant. That is happening to quite a few webcam performers, on Christmas of all days. It happened to former porn star Bibi Noel and it’s happening to hundreds of others. […]

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Porn Stars are now “employees” in California as AB5 just passed

porn news — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:40:28 +0000

California bill AB5 has passed. Everyone is busy focusing on how this affects Uber drivers but as we spoke about last June, it’s a big deal for porn stars too. The California Labor Federation just tweeted a confirmation of what we have said all along, porn stars are now “employees”. “As a worker in the […]

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Could porn stars be forced into being employees of porn studios?

porn news — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 05:43:24 +0000

The state of California is trying to pass AB5, a new bill that they claim would protect “gig economy workers” like those who drive for Uber or Postmates. But it also means that porn stars would have to be paid as employees instead of contractors. Experts are saying the bill, which first has yet to […]

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