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  • CA Senator to Unemployed Freelancers Begging to Work: You’re Upset Because We Took Away Your “Lollipops”

    05/15/2020 2:47:13 PM PDT · by DFG · 21 replies
    Redstate ^ | 05/15/2020 | Kira Davis
    Californian independent contractors and freelancers got quite a shock Thursday evening when a state senator compared lost jobs to “lollipops.” Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson represents the 19th District in western Ventura County and Santa Barbara County. In a Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement meeting officials heard arguments for and against pushing forward SB 806 and SB990. The bills — put forth by Republican senators John Moorlach (R-Costa Mesa) and Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield) — aimed to immediately suspend and amend the disastrous AB5 legislation that killed independent contracting/freelance jobs across the state. Moorlach and Grove have been two politicians at the...