Now they’ll just offshore more and more work, why deal with all the red tape.
If someone contracts with a baker for a cake would that person be responsible to ensure that the baker’s employee’s have proper accommodation for their religion?
This is another 17th Amendment-related issue. More about the 17th Amendment shortly.
A forthcoming ruling from federal [emphasis added] labor officials could dramatically alter the status of employees in a wide range of industries.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The first thing that patriots need to do any time the corrupt federal government makes a noise is to check if the feds can justify their action under Congress’s constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
In the case of federal regulations for intrastate labor, regardless what FDR’s activist justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate labor. This is evidenced by the following excerpt.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The reason that the feds are unconstitutionally regulating intrastate labor is the following imo. The Founding States had established the federal Senate to protect the voices of state legislatures in Congress. In other words, the Founders had expected senators to kill legislation which steals unique, 10th Amendment-protected state powers, such as the power to regulate intrastate labor.
The problem is that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Senate is not doing its to protect the states by killing vote-winning bills which establish unconstitutional federal regulatory control of many things, intrastate labor in this example.
The ill-conceived 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt, Constitution-ignoring senators and unconstitutional federal laws that regulate things like intrastate labor along with it.
Well, we saw this one coming...
I’ve been working via contracts for the last 20 years or so. Some on W2, some on 1099, some on corp-to-corp. Each one has its rate. Each one has its strengths and drawbacks.
The most open and free economic engagement in a professional capacity is the basic “I’ll do this work for this much money” and no other BS. That has worked out well for me in many short term contracts. Longer term engagements will be ‘flavored’ by details and such. Each one negotiated in and of itself.
This potential ruling, though, is just more liberal claptrap, taken from the perspective of ‘victims’.
Silly. And, just another straw on the camel’s back.