The article should be titled the Government of California Outlaws Freelance Work. But this is what progressives and the Democratic party do all the time. They cave into the Unions and pass legislation that ends up hurting the very people they claim to be wanting to help. People should demand that government just gets out of our way. But his is the Republik of Kalifornia, so we know how that goes.


https://townhall.com/columnists/john...recip=20684376

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Any bets on when the stupidity in California will stop?

When either an earthquake breaks it off from the land mass, or global warming causes it to be under water.

And maybe not even then.

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The government continuously tries to stifle any type of work that does not provide tax money from both sides of the employment contract. The method has changed, but if you look back, independent contractors have been forced into pigeon holes that only benefited the government. Now, add the unions to that list of beneficiaries.

On the conspiracy theorist side, the government can't keep track of a person if they aren't on someone's payroll. They can't keep track of how much you actually make, and from where. They have many ways to track what you spend and where you spend it. These horrible people, depriving the government of their oversight of the populace, not providing data analytics that can be packaged and sold.

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I know this ain't going to be popular opinion but I can see why California did this. Many companies classify certain employees as contractors to avoid paying taxes on those employees and to screw the employee out of any benefits. Its one thing if someone is hired once or twice to do a job.Sure that person should be considered a gig worker.For example the musician in the story who hires bandmates for a one night gig or someone you pay once in a while to mow your lawn. Its a completely different thing when that person is constantly doing the same job over and over again for the same company.For example like the Uber/lyft drivers,Amazon Prime drivers, Fed-Ex Ground truck drivers, janitorial staff for large companies and other workers who regularly do the same job almost every day for the same company. They probably didn't make exceptions to the law because employers will just cut employee hours to exploit any loopholes just like they did with Obama-care(where if a company only had so many full time employees then they didn't have to pay for employee insurance,so those companies just cut the number of hours each employee had).

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When i got laid off from My W2 job Freelance work of all kinds kept me going . STILL keeps me going.
I'm shocked that those media types on the left in California allowed this to happen, there are TONS of creative workers there that live off of that kind of work.
It's insane.

BTW, do the politicians get a W2? Isn't their work "For Hire" "freelance" work by default too?
But i'm sure that's different

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I believe that there is an IRS rule that states if a person averages more than 20 hours a week for the same company, they are considered an employee of the company and are held to those standards. But from what I hear, the IRS is NOT enforcing this rule. So now California passes another law because the original law is not being enforced.

Question: When are we going to hold ALL branches of government accountable to follow the law? This is like the gun arguments. We don't enforce the laws we have now, so we just pass new ones. Talk about stupid.

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I can see your perspective on this, but you need to take into consideration the fact that no person who agrees to doing something, has been 'screwed' out of anything, if it wasn't agreed upon during acceptance of the contract.

Let's take an example. My spouse has been involved with cable/fiber linework for over 40 years, as an independent contractor. When he signs a contract, it states what he gets paid, for what work, and when it needs to be finished by. It doesn't say that he will be given health insurance, or vacation time, or even allowances for weather days where he can't work.

So, they aren't 'screwing him' for things that weren't part of his contract in the first place. Saying they screwed him is dishonest and just playing to the masses who want to push the agenda.

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Nobody has never said they would like to work for less money and no benefits. If that is the field he wants to work in full time and the only way he can work in that field is as a contractor then he is being screwed. I am sure if your spouse could have done the same thing for forty years as an actual employee of that company making the same money but with benefits like insurance and other **** then that's what he would be doing instead.

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I am not sure that is true. Because every Fed-Ex Ground driver that delivers packages to homes and businesses are not actual Fed-Ex employees and they do work longer than 20 hours a week.

If it is state law then it means it can be enforced at the state level.

The new gun laws want passed are not bout holding criminals accountable. They want them passed to turn a constitutional right into a state granted privilege and to gradually ban all firearms. They want them passed to make it more difficult for law abiding citizens to exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

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