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