Weta & Peter Jackson explicitly went out of their way to get a law change to prevent people who were working in the industry from having the worker protections

Weta & Peter Jackson explicitly went out of their way to get a law change to prevent people who were working in the industry from having the worker protections to which they were entitled. Thus, they're not "contract employees" but "independent contractors"--which, without the law change, wouldn't have been legal in the same way "gig workers" failed to meet the criteria of "independent" in many places/cases (e.g. working for more than one client at a time, having control over work location etc). (There was some recent coverage of this history in this article (although it appears the relevant full text is not available online): https://web.archive.org/web/20210921132447/https://northandsouth.co.nz/2021/09/12/1-billion-and-counting/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210921132447/https://northands...)