California’s new employment law has boomeranged and is starting to crush freelancers

CNBC ^ | December 11, 2019 | Elaine Pofeldt

[Lizavetta]

Has nothing to do with regulation and everything to do with unionization.

Don't forget the brand new batch of payroll taxes from these newly created employees.

[FamiliarFace]

I was hoping they would be in the category of those with exemptions.

[FamiliarFace]

They will destroy more than Uber.

[Pelham]

I live in California and know what I’m talking about.

[SFConservative]

Yep, there are real-time brib eh ... I mean contributions, and then there is featherbedding. Due to term limits, they are motivated to legislate favors for various “non-profit” organizations which, once they are termed out, give them multi $100K no-show “jobs” for life.

[bgill]

They pass bills before reading them.

[HotHunt]

More unintended consequences of not-so-well-thought-out policies.

This is a common trait running through liberal legislation.

[MarkL]

The rules to determine if one is "an employee" or a contractor are so complex that businesses have sprung up all over the country to "certify" whether or not someone is an employee.

At the time I was a field engineer, but I had previously worked for an education company as a networking instructor, and had kept my instruction certifications current. The software company Novell had me come in as a contract instructor, to teach a class to their employees on a new product that I had been working with since the alpha test days.

The class was at Novell headquarters in Provo, UT, using Novell's computers, software, and some related training materials. Never mind that I did NOT work for Novell, I worked for a company in Kansas City as a network engineer who also happened to hold Novell Instructor credentials (I was authorized to teach 21 official Novell courses as a "Master Certified Novell Instructor."

But because of the situation of the class, the state and federal governments all claimed that I was an employee of Novell, even though the contract wasn't between Novell and myself, but the company for which I worked. It took multiple lawyers to straighten it out. Eventually I did get "certified" as a contractor for Novell, though it took several weeks and forced the class to be delayed.

Mark

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

California Democrats are stupid, in competent , Marxists in training. If something works well, they must destroy it. It is a mental illness that can destroy our society. Lobotomies time Nov. 2020.