Sixty million Americans worked at some point last year as independent contractors, but the Democrats’ union buddies don’t like it so Biden, like Newsom, is trying to severely restrict independent contracting. From Mary Katharine Ham at realclearwire.com:
California is known for many things – beautiful scenery, surfing, wine, movies, singing raisins. But perhaps its biggest exports now are its failed public policies and the hundreds of thousands of people leaving the state because they cannot live with those policies.
One of those infamous policies and the havoc it’s bound to wreak has gone national, thanks to labor department rules issued by the Biden administration. A 339-page Department of Labor rule – you can always count on the federal government to keep it pithy – would make it much harder to be an independent contractor or freelance worker in America. Created to replace a simpler Trump-era rule, it’s modeled on AB5, a disastrous 2019 California law that made independent contracting and freelance work so hard to do that it effectively outlawed it in the Golden State.
That law was so calamitous, despite its advertised intent of ensuring more employment benefits for more workers, even California had to admit it, scrambling to make fixes and hand out hundreds of exemptions to the law. Those exemptions are, of course, based on lobbying and political clout, leaving smaller, unconnected people to languish or leave the state. The list of exemptions is now more than 20 times longer than the original law. Some industries, like freelance transcription services, simply ceased to exist in California, said Karen Anderson, a freelancer who founded Freelancers Against AB5. Small community theaters suffered, unable to afford to make their freelancers into full-time employees, and that was before they got walloped by COVID restrictions. AB5’s opposition has collected the stories of hundreds of Californians and former Californians who had their livelihoods ruined or disrupted by AB5.
“The chilling effect alone is enough to make a corporation or a business skittish about hiring an independent contractor at all,” Anderson said, noting the same is probably already happening with Biden’s regulation.
“It was just a complete and total dumpster fire (in California),” she said.
The corn studded Sino-American Friendship Center CCP turd Kalifornia?
No shirking on mandatory rickshaw cart duty, comrade.
Forward! Si se puede!
Breaking: The five replacements who beat up a state pension monger NYPD are headed to sanctuary in California.
Once saw a comment at the excellent like a free college course Z Man saying that the Long March comrades have already won, past tense.
Plan accordingly.