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Fired is inaccurate.
He is not an employee of Weekly Playboy. He his an artist and Playboy, an editorial company who accepts to support his work through their platform.
Author are like "incorporated" or self-employed individuals rather than employee. Nobody would ever imagine the Author of Harry Potter being "fired" if her publisher decided to cancel her work.
Rather than fired, he is ripping the consequences of a breach of contract - contract which gives the publisher significant rights over the materials published under their editorial leadership.
To loop in anyone else confused, the author is a creep and pedo, he followed around middle school girls in a bike and "approached" them before running away. He was arrested for reports of him touching a middle school girl inappropriately. I'm happy he got fired, but so disappointed this manga will never have an end :(