I’m president of a community orchestra here in California. We also have Independent Contractors/ any soloist, supply musician we hire for one concert and a rehearsal, etc. They want everybody to be an employee so they can scrape off part of their salary for their very stupid state spending.
There are plenty of us conservatives here. Just that there are more libs, more illegals, and so much graft and corruption. I call it The Occupied Territories.
The Gig’s Up for Freelancers
The new law was pitched as a simple measure to provide contract workers with benefits like sick leave and health care. Yet as the dust clears, many ugly details are emerging. There were lots of carve-outs: for doctors, lawyers, accountants, psychologists, insurance agents like Jake from State Farm. But here’s something weird: Freelance journalists are limited to 35 submissions a year per “putative” employer.
Like many independent contractors, I prefer not to be hired as an employee. I don’t want to attend company picnics or sit through mandatory sensitivity training. Shouldn’t I have the ability to choose? Apparently not in California, a job-destroying wrecking ball. On a more serious note, many disabled people or parents with young children would rather work freelance from home than trudge to an office. Retaining more workers directly will send employers’ costs up, up, up. Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are spending about $30 million each to fund a ballot initiative to kill AB 5, but votes won’t be cast until November 2020. Ugh.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-gigs-up-for-freelancers-11572208945?mod=itp_wsj&ru=yahoo