IWW FJU Shares Model Contract for Freelancers to Reference
The Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union, with the support of Framework Law, has created a new model contract for freelance journalists to reference in the course of their individual negotiations with commissioning editors. The model contract is a publicly available resource, providing a reference point of contract terms to help protect freelancers when engaging with commissioning editors and to support more favorable working conditions. That said, please be aware that this contract is not legal advice. You can download the contract from our Resources page.
The IWW FJU encourages all freelancers to share, download, modify, and use the model contract as they see fit. Freelancers can compare the model contract to those they are provided with by commissioning editors, thereby helping freelancers judge the quality of the terms presented by the publication. The model contract also provides provisions that freelancers may want to request from commissioning editors — or in cases where commissioning editors provide an inadequate contract or no contract at all, freelancers may also want to request adoption of the entire model contract.
The model contract is one part of the IWW FJU’s emerging contract campaign. If you would like to get involved, please contact the IWW FJU at [email protected].