The End Of Freelancers?
Joe Biden’s Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new rules, which they claim will help freelancers.
Not so says John Stossel. Apparently the leftists didn’t notice how similar rules in California actually hurt freelancers! Stossel, who says he reported on the law four years ago, noted that California politicians and the media claimed freelancers were being abused. Their solution was a new law that reclassified millions of them as staff employees—whether they liked it or not.
Politicians claimed businesses would now be forced to pay them wages and benefits that they deserve. “In reality, what’s actually happening is they’re just letting them all go,” said freelance musician Ari Herstand.
Stossel says four years years later, the results are in and so many careers were ruined that California exempted more than a hundred industries, but freelancers still lost their jobs. “Yet now, the Labor Department is forcing the rest of the country to be more like California?” Stossel says. Here’s more.
