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Top 6 Employer Must-Provides that You’ve Never Received

5 Jan 202222 Jan 2022
By AllanaPublished October 2021 Have you ever been trained on using a fire extinguisher? Shown a plan, much less trained, for an emergency at work? Your US employer is required…
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Wage Theft and What You Can Do About it

5 Jan 202227 Aug 2022
By AllanaPublished January 2022 Federal Wage and Hour Division investigations in 2021 found, on average, $1,211.70 for each employee due back wages. Though the federal government might not know it,…
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What Happened to Save Our Stages?

5 Oct 2021
By GaeaPublished October 2021 Way back a dozen years ago at the beginning of the pandemic, a lot of folks in the industry organized around #SaveOurStages. In the Twin Cities,…
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Which Do You Want to Be: Independent Contractor or Employee?

1 Jul 202115 Aug 2021
By Lindy SpencerPublished July 2021 I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people claim that they make more money as an independent contractor than as an employee,…
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Advanced Gig Tracking

5 Jan 202129 Dec 2021
By Roger Published January 2021 In March 2020, we shared a simple spreadsheet to help keep track of work, pay, and employers. It was a basic, straightforward record of what…
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Gig Tracking

1 Mar 202030 Dec 2021
By Roger Published March 2020 Until 2011, I was a single-employer worker with one income plus my spouse’s. The recession of 2011 changed all that. Lacking other options, I returned…
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Better for Employees? – A Brief Primer on Social Security

1 Mar 20206 Apr 2021
By Ray and Paul Published March 2020 A recent stagehand discussion on Facebook inspired this piece. In a discussion about Social Security: Put bluntly: this is completely wrong, as we'll…
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TfC Origin Story

31 Jan 201925 Dec 2020
by Allana Published September 2018 My role with Mill City Summer Opera started in its inaugural season (2012) when I accepted the electrician call but due to an unrelated workplace…
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Employee or Independent Contractor — What Are the Costs?

31 Jan 201923 Feb 2022
by Ray and Paul Published September 2018 Do you work as an independent contractor? As an employee? If you’re paid on an hourly basis at the same rate, you’ll get a…

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