By: Mark Fitzgerald The
St. Petersburg (Fla.)
Times told its 1,000 newspaper carriers June 2 that they would be losing their part-time employee status -- along with their health benefits and workers' compensation eligibility -- as Florida's largest paper gradually switches to delivery by independent contractors beginning this fall.
In a meeting with the carriers and district managers, President and Editor Paul Tash said the
Times hoped to keep all present carriers as independents and would draw up contracts to make the work as remunerative as it is now.
By employing its deliverers, the 352,777-circulation paper has been an industry anomaly: Fully 94.6% of U.S. dailies deliver through independent contractors or agencies, according to the Newspaper Association of America's "Circulation Facts, Figures, and Logic, 2001."
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