It’s not just writers. I’m friends with some free-lance musicians in California. This law is going to destroy their work in musical theater, since pit musicians inevitably end up performing enough services to cross the threshold, and most theaters can’t deal with the added expense.
This economic train-wreck, along with the homeless crisis, provides a great opening for conservatives to make inroads in California politics.
FR and the rest of our friends need to move to AZ and take it back to being solid red. Then build the wall on CA’s eastern border.
“I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.
Stupid is as stupid does. The 'gig' economy is in response to labor laws and other idiocy that makes having full-time employees untenable. What to do? Get rid of the 'gigs' and let people starve.
If it kills freedom, Democrats are for it.
Central Planning, baby.
A new California law intended to _________________ is killing _________________ .
Fill in the blanks with almost anything that CA decides they should regulate. They mess it up so badly pretty much every time.
LOL! This is so screwed up.
California is freaking crazy.
As a computer engineer, I spent over 10 years as a freelancer....
I went from one project to another a lot times with ATT or Cisco Systems...
Personally I preferred it that way, my wife and I had our own health insurance so I always declined company insurance just so I could leave anytime I wanted and still keep my benefits...
I negotiated my own pay, usually by the hour for 40 hour week and time and half for overtime...plus travel expenses....
It’s not for everyone, but I could usually earn more in 6-8 months versus a full time employee for some corporation....
California is going to kill this type of employment for thousands in the high tech sector in California, not that they really care....
Become a serf, or die.
Because of federal laws, an entire new industry popped up just to “certify” workers as contractors, but if CA made it even worse, I can only imagine how bad it will be, so I completely understand them wanting to hire out-of-state contractors.
It took a former employer of mine nearly a month to straighten things out when the company I worked for was contracted to provide education services to a customer. The company that supposed to certify that I was a contractor kept insisting that I was actually an employee of the company where I was to teach a class.
The problem was that I worked for an education center that taught classes on Novell networking. The customer was Novell corporate HQ, which needed me to teach a class (I was one of only 3 instructors in the US certified to teach the class at the time.) Because the course materials were being supplied by Novell, and the company I worked for was a certified Novell Education center, by purchasing the course materials directly from Novell, and if I taught the class at Novell’s Herndon, VA corporate office, it was claimed that I was an employee of Novell.
In order to teach the class without being classified as a Novell employee, Novell had to rent a room at a nearby hotel for the class, and where Novell could have simply provided the course materials for themselves, we had to charge them full retail price on the course materials, because my company, which COULD HAVE bought the materials directly from Novell at a discount, had to buy them at full retail price from another education center.
Mark