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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Legal business contract stuff, most likely. Different countries have different employment law requirements, so Mozilla would realistically need legal representation in those places. That gets pricy fast.

I'm also excluded, for what it's worth.

[–] kameecoding 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, you can't "employ" someone but you can enter into a contract with a business a business that happens to be a single person business.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Depends where you are. There are tax implications for this too. look at IR35 in the UK

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

that too can get legally complicated, due to laws protecting people from being exploited this way