Editor’s Note: This statement is being published (almost) simultaneously at many of the SB Nation MLB communities, and reflects the feelings of the site managers who publish it across the network. It may or may not represent the feelings of any other contributors.
Last week we learned that our peers at the California-based SB Nation communities would face major changes under California Assembly Bill 5. You can read the full text of the bill here, but essentially, AB 5 attempts to address the rise of the gig economy and the lack of labor protections afforded to those workers by limiting the use of classifying workers as “independent contractors” rather than full-fledged employees.