Michael Moore called out ABC on "Good Morning America" Wednesday for employing
"permalancers," permanent freelancers who are effectively full-time employees but hired
on a contract basis, and thus not extended any benefits.
"I'm talking to employees, people backstage here, they don't get to be real employees
here because they don't get the benefits, so they're freelancers," Moore told Chris Cuomo.
"And I said 'Guy, I was here two years ago and you were a freelancer' — right backstage
here at ABC — he said, 'We call ourselves permalancers now.' They don't get to share in
just the basic benefits that an employee used to have who worked here. What's wrong
with that? What is wrong with just giving people basic things for their hard work?"
