Denton To Gawker Employees: Get A W-2 Or I'll Cut Your Hours

Gawker Media is “going legit,” as The Awl reported last night, but not without some hard choices. “Workers at the company’s various blogs will have the choice between going full-time, as actual employees, or staying as contract workers, but only working four days a week,” says former Gawker writer Choire Sicha.
He adds:
“This is awesome news for those among us who were afraid that in the hideous future, no one would ever find employee status anywhere again…(And once they’re employees, they can more easily unionize.