This is much bigger than California. This is going to happen in the entire United States if we lose the Senate and Biden is elected. This is all about organized unions trying to take over.
What you don’t get is that this has bigger implications if the Democrats would win the Senate, and the presidency. It would be the first thing they would put into affect nationwide. January 2020 Congress passed the following bill. But since there’s a Republican Senate it went nowhere.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that effectively would nationalize the provisions within California’s AB5 law, which severely constricts the ability of companies to hire independent contractors.
The Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, introduced in Congress last year, expands the definition of “employee” and “employer” to discourage the classification of workers as independent contractors, with language that mirrors the three-pronged “ABC” test in AB5 to determine independent contractor status. An amendment attached to the bill clarifies that its ABC test “does not preempt any state laws governing the wages, work hours, workers’ compensation, or unemployment insurance of employees.”
The legislation was approved along party lines in the Democrat-controlled House. The bill has a much more difficult road in the Republican-majority U.S. Senate, however, where it is not expected to pass. “It’s a messaging bill that has no chance of passing” in the Senate, said Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., in opposing the bill on the House floor.
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/house-democrats-approve-federal-ab5-legislation
Declaring this the Uberpocalypse is like calling the the Wuhan Flu a “problem for tanning parlors.”
This is not just about the employers, either.
The gig economy is about the individual who chooses to work as a contractor, master of his own fate.
This includes writers, IT consultants, nurses, all kinds of creative and professional/skilled trades, etc.
I mean, I can’t think of any skill/profession that does NOT have people who are independent contractors.
CA even tried to take down CDL Owner Operators, but the FMCA stopped that I think.
Yeah, it’s about Door Dash /sarc