You might be surprised by how many job listings on writer-centric websites still offer pay rates that fall way below minimum wage. It’s time writers began holding site managers accountable by pointing out any job listings they see that are clearly designed to exploit writers.
Writers Worth Month founder Lori Widmer has a regular feature on her Words on the Page blog, “This Job Not That Job,” which dissects exploitative job offers and suggests viable alternatives.
This year I decided to take that one step further and encourage fellow writers who see exploitative jobs ads on writing-related websites to ask those site owners to establish and adhere to their own minimum requirements for job listings.
You can read my guest post on Lori’s website.