We’re gonna protect them all the way to extinction!
The gig economy is tough on most workers. But, at least they are working.
California is raising the price of this sort of labor, and creating rigidities in labor.
There will be fewer people working as a result.
So our future is based on a state that allows people to poop wherever they want. Wonderful.
They’ve sided with Uber instead of with the music industry? A bold move. Let’s see how it works out for them.
law would specifically crush the independent sector.
Orwell was right about everything but the date.
Amazing how people who’ve never run a business attempt to tell people how to run a business.
The recording industry has pretty much already moved to Nashville anyhow.
I feel sorry for the people out there, because that's one of the few places one can actually make a living making music. Most of us have to have a day gig, be that teaching or whatever.
Wouldnt hiring a neighborhood kid to mow the lawn be similarly affected along with all other informal job arrangements?
Show biz people wanted socialism, now they have it. The foundation of having the government regulate the the economy is regulation of the “employment relationship”. Enjoy.
I know people love to bash artists and California and Blue States and say "serves them right." But they're not all pod-eating Antifa, and this is an excellent teachable moment to pull people on the bubble over to the side of life and liberty.
This is about the state not receiving their cut of tax revenues. Classify independent contractors as employees and have taxes withheld instead of waiting for year end filings. As an employee can you deduct the use of your car?
If a group plays for a percentage of the sales, they are NOT employees and not subject to the minimum hourly rate law.
This is about total control of the means of production, or one step on the way to totalitarian control of the economy.
If I lived in California as an Independent Contractor who sometimes hire help from other Independent Contractors, my clients are in trouble, bad trouble.
My clients are very large companies with extremely large clients and have contracts in force that can not be fulfilled when they must make all the independent contractors employees. None, that is zero of these positions are any where near the minimum wage. Our rates are orders of magnitude greater. As our own employers, we have the responsibility of dealing with the various tax authorities under well establihed federal law.
Chaos is going to be the circumstance while the matter is in the courts. A judge needs to provide an injunction until the matter can be decided.
California democrats are insufferably arrogant. Hey Lorena, the rest of the world has electricity and toilets.
“Under the new law, producers, engineers, publicists, managers, dancers, background vocalists and others hired by artists could be defined as employees and subject to stringent employment regulations.”
Well, the fact is, under federal law, most of those people already are employees who should be subject to those regulations. Now, a publicist or manager probably could still be considered an independent contractor, but a producer, engineer, dancer, background vocalist, session musician, etc, are almost certainly not. Since they are going to be told where, when, and how to do the work by the person hiring them, then they already are de facto employees.
This will not end well for California.
Once businesses leave, they are not coming back.
Is there are Hollywood Texas? If not, there may soon be.
Just blew their ability to deduct expenses, claim QBID.
Keep voting democrat....