This law ‘helps’ freelancers in California by incentivizing employers to fire them immediately, which they have done. Ooops. But the dems never ever ever admit a mistake, they double down. So of course they will take it national if they can.
Wouldn’t matter since his presidency would be the death of America.
I think it would mean the death of the US as we know it - period. That said, I’m not sure it will survive, no matter who is elected. I’ve said for years that I think 2020 will be the last presidential election in the US, assuming we even have that one.
Well, the virus just put that prediction on steroids. That is, the REACTION to the virus.
2021 will make 2020 look like the good ol’ days. I don’t even want to speculate on 2022. I hope all y’all got enough beans and ammo.
Replace “freelancing” with “everything, even cockroaches and amoeba” and it’s more accurate
Yes, but Biden will not (legitimately) win the Presidency. The Demonrats already know this; that’s why they’re pumping out as much fake-poll fake news as they can now, to try to reduce Trump’s “popular-vote” margin. The latter does NOT elect Presidents, though, so it’s just media spin.
Uber and Lyft are shutting down in California because of this.
I work in employee benefits. The growing trend over the last 15 years is to make employees subcontractors 1099 employees. No benefits.
Large companies do this by hiring from temporary agencies. Don’t like the employee? Tell the temp agency not to bring him or her back.
This started with blue collar but now rapidly spreading to white collar.
The country is fuarked and heading down the tubes.
And don't think for a moment that they wouldn't do away with the filibuster.
Yes.
Because his brain is GONE.
And thus he would NOT resist the pressure from AOC types to replicate what was done in California.
Any decent instinct Joe might have ever had sleeps with the fishes.
the death of democracy
In preferred contract work in my last 5 years of professional life.
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
Surely they can’t believe that crippling the innovative growth and livelihoods of millions of “gig economy” workers will be good for America?
The incurious and shallow media makes this about “Uber.”
Trouble is this will crater the economy after Biden takes over.
It all rides on the election.
That would be the least of your worries under President Biden and later President Harris it would get even worse.
Nope, Death of the Republic.
Before the COVID-19 shutdown the economy, gig workers and freelance workers were a small but significant part of the boom in almost full employment we were having.
It was resisted by the unions and the Democrat politicians the unions controlled but laws against it weren’t in force yet.
Now that the California law is kicking in and Democrats country wide smell victory, expect gig and freelance work to be over. This will not be good for the economy and companies needing short term workers will have to pay more for it.
Would the death of freelancing be good for America, or bad for America?
See how clear it becomes?