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Gutless Amenders in California’s Legislature

March 28, 2024 11:14 amMarch 28, 2024 11:14 am

In 2019, the California Legislature passed and Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill called AB 5, a dream of big labor’s but a nightmare for freelance/contract workers. In 2020, Newsom signed AB 2257, lifting some requirements for some of the...

Freelancer Freedom Bill Moves Forward

March 22, 2024 4:54 amMarch 22, 2024 4:54 am

The House Education and the Workforce Committee today approved and sent to the full House of Representatives a measure that would overturn the new anti-independent contractor rule put in place by Julie Su’s Department of Labor. The committee passed the...

The New Fed Contractor Rule is Great! …But Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Says the LA Times

March 18, 2024 2:50 pmMarch 18, 2024 2:50 pm

Sometimes alternate realities are fun. A good movie, an engrossing sci-fi book, thinking ever so briefly what you will do with all that money when the lottery ticket you just bought wins. Harmless escapism and, to be blunt, something...

Not So Free-lance: Fed Rule Takes Effect Today

March 11, 2024 4:13 pmMarch 11, 2024 4:13 pm

Are you a freelancer or a gig worker or an independent contractor now? You might not be tomorrow. Today, a new Department of Labor – under the leadership of Acting Secretary Julie Su – rule governing how a freelancer is...

Opposition to Su Federal Freelance Rule Grows: Kiley, Cassidy Introduce Bill to Stop

March 6, 2024 3:30 pmMarch 6, 2024 3:30 pm

In January, the Department of Labor, headed by Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su of California pandemic fraud/AB 5 infamy, proposed a federal rule that would gut freelance and gig workers right to remain freelancers and gig workers. The rule,...

SFC Columnist Asks ‘Why Not Ignore Private Sector Concerns and let Government Take Over Gig Economy?’

January 31, 2024 2:55 amJanuary 31, 2024 2:56 am

Soleil Ho (they/them) of the San Francisco Chronicle asks, Why not make the Gig economy a public utility? “Labor activists say gig work is unjust; disability advocates say services such as DoorDash, Instacart, Uber and Lyft are essential to independence,”...

Julie Su Sued Over Freelancer Rule

January 17, 2024 3:34 pmJanuary 17, 2024 5:04 pm

The new federal rule Julie Su’s Department of Labor issued last week regarding freelance workers now has its first direct legal challenge, with the Pacific Legal Foundation yesterday filing a suit calling the new rule arbitrary, capricious, and, in fact,...