Miraje, that reminds me. One of the BIGGEST job-killing regulations that Sacramento passed was AB5.
Many people liked the freedom that came with contract or "gig" work.
As someone who has several contract engineers working for me, I like the freedom that I have in being able to hire these contract engineers on the spot whenever I need them.
Yet the sob stories about poor workers who have to Uber 60 hours a week without enough safety regulations or health benefits got to the dumbass busybodies in Sacramento, so they passed this dumbass law.
The law is so bad, many industries had to lobby to get exceptions carved out for them, including ( source: NOLO)
- physicians, surgeons, dentists, podiatrists, psychologists, veterinarians
- insurance brokers, underwriters, premium auditors, risk managers
- lawyers
- architects, landscape architects, and engineers
- private investigators
- accountants
- registered securities broker-dealers and investment advisers
- direct sales salespeople (must not be paid by the hour and have written IC contracts)
- manufactured housing salespersons
- individuals engaged by an international exchange visitor program recognized by the U.S. Department of State, and
- competition judges, including amateur umpires and referees.
Yet too many other contractors either lost their contracts or had to rework their contracts in order to avoid the heavy hand of Sacramento.
For example, the libtards don't like it when any contractor stays with a single employer for more than two years. Then said employer needs to hire the contractor as a full-time employee, but that also means the pay has to be reduced because the employer is mandated to provide all sorts of benefits and all that.
My wife in particular got the business end of that. She's at a point in her career where she'd be better off working remotely outside of the state of California. Too many potential employers won't hire contractors from California because of AB5.
She's only staying here because of me.
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