Posted on 09/09/2018 2:29:00 PM PDT by lowbridge
Some small businesses are scrambling to figure out how to stay afloat after a high court ruling.
A recent California Supreme Court decision is changing the way independent contractors are classified, and it’s already having a big impact on local shops. May fear it will hurt millions of workers and affect businesses’ bottom lines.
The work doesn’t stop at Downtown Sacramento’s Bottle and Barlow, even if it became a one-man shop.
“I lost my entire staff,” said owner Anthony Gianotti.
He says all seven of his barbers quit after a state supreme court ruling that will change their way of work.
“It doesn’t just affect my business, it affects every independent contractor in the state of California,” said Gianotti.
Historically, the cosmetology industry, which includes barbers and hair stylists, have been classified as independent contractors, but that won’t be the case anymore. Gianotti explains the new rule.
“That you cannot classify someone as an independent contractor if they offer the same service that is the primary business of the business.”
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So, basically, a barber can no longer work in a barbershop as an independent contractor, where they typically set their own hours and pay. Instead, they’ll now have to become employees of the business on an official payroll.
“Which is insane for a small business, like this. We can’t afford to have a bunch of employees. What are you going to pay them you know, minimum wage?” said Victory Ink Tattoo owner Ristina Rodriguez.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacramento.cbslocal.com ...
California charges a business tax of $800 annually whether you make money or not. You have to pay the Sacramento Mob their cut first. See it’s due in December for the next year. Sucking blood out of the little guy right and left
It’s insane. CA government robs people in every direction for anything they think up. They have these opulent board rooms in CA where people sit around and try to develop and justify new taxes and regulations and group think what they’e going to call them. I personally always liked the con-job term, “Immigration reform” or even better, “Comprehensive immigration reform”. Which meant, “Wide open, chaotic and violent lawless borders and you’ll pay for every bit of it”. That’s exactly what defined that BS.
The Left does not believe in people achieving success through their own hard work and ambition. They believe in wage slaves who owe any pittance to unions. Unions that heavily support the Democrats.
I hope this is overturned. As the criteria set to determine their status is one that I have never read of before. Usually being truly independent as these barbers were was enough to classify them as independent contractors. There are employers who really do skate on very thin ice when it comes to employee vs independent contractor status but this hardly applies here.
California has become and unbearable liberal sh!thole!!!!
“Historically, the cosmetology industry, which includes barbers and hair stylists, have been classified as independent contractors...”
**What is wrong with that sentence?**
First this: “the cosmetology industry, which includes barbers and hair stylists, have been...”
Industry is singular, have been in plural. It should be “industry has been”.
Next, either grammatically correct or not it makes no sense.
“...the cosmetology industry [...] have (sic) been classified as independent contractors.”
Industries cannot be independent contractors. Human brings who work in certain industries can be independent contractors,
“hysterically” would have been funnier.
I saw the headline and thought that the state was kinda severe in not letting them harmonize.
back in the day, a golfer couldn’t take a college golf scholarship cause he would lose his amateur eligibility. Golfers were then offered partial football\baseball etc...scholarships.
They don’t like their fascism and socialism when it directly messes with their personal lives?
Shocking. Just shocking.
But I bet they cheered when the state courts fuched over the baker to bake the damn queer cake.
I remember when my husband and I fought CA on a proposal exactly like this for independent flight instructors in our flying business in the ‘70’s. The flight schools fought it and won. The instructors set their own hours and we didn’t control when or the days they worked. I have no idea if the loons have swept up flight instructors in this same law but probably. Left that great state behind 12 years ago.....
No it’s about tax revenue.Yep. That and funding their workers comp scam/cash cow.
CA’s advice. Get a Flo-Bee.
Lyft and Uber are heavily investing in driverless cars. They cannot make money paying humans. They will soon be immune to many HR issues.
California - the state that turned stupid into a science!!!
What in the name of sanity and intelligence ever gave you that idea? The one and only thing, other than his legacy of a phallic symbol bullet train homage to his queerdom, Jerry Moonbeam Brown and his democrap cohorts have ever worked to accomplish is the destruction of the state of California by driving industry and jobs out of the state by any means possible.
Since enviro Nazism wasn't doing the job fast enough they have turned to economic Nazism to hasten it's demise, primarily through insanely high and unjustifiable minimum wage, the accelerated import of illegal aliens and gifting them with taxpayer funded healthcare, food, lodging and schooling and now this insanity which will throw thousands of (I'll shorten the list) hair care professionals out of work.
Bravo Moonbeam, no one in their right mind could have possibly believed one lunatic could cause so much pain and destruction to a once great state!
Ways around that. Make haircuts your secondary business. Perhaps a barber shop in a coffee shop.
What in the name of sanity and intelligence ever gave you that idea? Brown worked to accomplish the destruction of the state of California by driving industry and jobs out of the state by any means possible.
Hmmm...What are you talking about? Would higher taxes and more punitive business regulations not help them accomplish that?
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