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Her law is supposed to provide independent contractors with the same benefits and workplace protections that full-time employees get and - most important to the Democrats - therefore make it possible for them to unionize.

And to start collecting payroll taxes for all those newly-minted employees.

Unionization (more $$$ union dues) and taxes (more $$$ from employers) is what AB 5 is about. Yet another liberal screwing dressed up as "helping".

I'm a transcriber contractor and have lost one of my clients, who will now hire ALL her transcribers from out of state. There is no way she could or would hire a single transcriber as an employee due to the nature of the business. Work is project based. When it comes in, it's divvied up and completed. Then you wait for the next project. A transcriber "employee" would be sitting around twiddling thumbs doing nothing, on the clock, waiting for the next project. Completely undoable.