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Thread: #AB5 hurts small businesses by not allowing subcontracting as part of #BusinessToBusiness Today I was presented with an opportunity to bid on some work. It was work from home, great during this pandemic. So what happened? #AB5stories 1/
This project would be an opportunity to collaborate with a longtime friend and colleague, who is also an independent consultant. We each have our own businesses (separate LLCs), clients, and market ourselves. The client could use both of our expertise. #AB5stories 2/
The client wants one statement of work for the project. So to make that happen, one of our businesses would be the lead, and the other would subcontract. Under #AB5 that’s not allowed. #AB5stories 3/
THREAD (1/5): Yesterday @KevinKileyCA introduced an amendment to #RepealAB5 for non-rideshare companies and individuals. I was deeply disappointed that his efforts were unsuccessful. Here are my thoughts:
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(2/5) The backlash to this law has been bipartisan, widespread, and well-documented. Dozens of exceptions, fixes, and clean-up bills have not solved the basic problem: this law does much more harm than good.
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(3/5) I challenge my fellow Democrats to listen and lead. Our super-majority has made it too easy to eliminate voices of opposition and, in this case, reason. We are the party of inclusion, but we have shut out voices of disagreement to the detriment of millions.
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1/14 @TheDemocrats I am begging you to read this thread.
In 2019, when those of us who choose to earn a living as independent contractors realized your plan was to roll out ABC Test labor legislation nationwide, we thought you'd made an oversight. You started in California...
In 2019, when those of us who choose to earn a living as independent contractors realized your plan was to roll out ABC Test labor legislation nationwide, we thought you'd made an oversight. You started in California...
2/14 ... and then tried in New Jersey and New York with the same bills, which impose the 1930s ABC Test for labor law on our economy here in the year 2020.
Your message was that the law had to change because gig companies like Uber were out of control, misclassifying workers...
Your message was that the law had to change because gig companies like Uber were out of control, misclassifying workers...
3/14 ... as independent contractors when they should have been employees with benefits. People like me--who make up the 70-80% of people who consistently say we prefer IC work--figured we were accidentally caught in the crosshairs of this policy, and that you'd exempt us ...
More #AB5stories From the Freelancers Against AB5 Facebook Group. " I’d like to raise my voice for older people who have “aged out” of the employment pool before retirement but still need to work..." 1/5 #RepealAB5
"...every senior barely getting by with Social Security; and every person whose disability might confine them to their home or restrict their opportunities.AB5 is restraint of trade - ours - and the state of California has no right to dictate..." 2/5 #RepealAB5
"...where and with whom we choose to contract, and under what terms, as long as it’s legal. This ( #AB5) is a 19th century response to a 21st century economy. If the idea is to go after companies exploiting part-time workers, then punish the companies. 3/5 #RepealAB5
(1/4) We've received heartbreaking #AB5stories from pediatric therapists, food deliverers, actors, singers, storytellers, musicians, sign language interpreters, court reporters, composers, producers, writers, editors, business owners, entertainers...
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(2/4) photographers, artists, teachers, tutors, translators, pharmacists, bandleaders, authors, journalists, medical transcriptionists, marketers, publicists, filmmakers, doulas, notaries, bloggers, nurse anesthesiologists, deposition reporters, construction workers...
(3/4) massage therapists, insurance adjusters, speech therapists, consultants, tax preparers, picture editors, stenographers, dancers, designers, publishers, mortgage brokers, loan officers, truckers, nail technicians, drummers, occupational therapists, columnists...
