{"id":853,"date":"2020-01-15T14:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2020-01-15T14:52:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:52:03","slug":"update-on-ab5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE ON AB5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Freelancers\nAngry Over Assemblywoman Gonzalez\u2019 False Claims About Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The terms of AB 5 are so murky that many companies are choosing to not work with anyone living in California.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsom Budgets Millions to Hunt Down AB-5 Violators<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\nMichelle Mears<\/a>, January 14, 2020 6:51 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike the old Soviet Union you will be allowed to work only if\ngovernment allows it\u2014under their conditions, not yours.\u201d ~Stephen Frank<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part\nll of those hurt by AB 5.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part\nl is here: Democrat Assemblywoman Gonzalez Says There Is No Data Proving\nThousands of Freelancers Are Losing Work Due to AB-5<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assemblywoman\nLorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) and Governor Gavin Newsom (D)  are digging\nin as freelancers fight back against AB 5. On Friday, Jan. 10 Gonzalez appeared on KUSI<\/a> in San Diego and made numerous\nfalse claims about workers in the gig economy not paying taxes or having\nbenefits. The same day,  Gov. Gavin Newsom allocated $20-million to target\nand investigate contractors, not in compliance with the law that took effect\nNew Year\u2019s Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

California\nis estimated to have nearly two million residents who choose to work as an\nindependent contractor, according to the  2018 U.S. Bureau of Labor\nStatistics Economic Release. Two million however is a conservative estimate\nbecause the report did not include the number of individuals who supplement\ntheir income with online platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gonzalez\nhas angered not just thousands but possibly millions of voters. Self-proclaimed\nhard core Democrats have said this is the straw that broke the camels back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\ngroup of contractors met with Assemblyman David Chui (D) in San Francisco on\nMonday. Chui told contractor Emily Price and others that a repeal of AB-5 is\nunlikely but he is keeping a binder of people\u2019s stories on how the bill is\naffecting them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile,\nrally\u2019s are being planned up and down the state, freelancers and independent\ncontractors are writing letters, and making phone calls to state\nrepresentatives. Gonzalez however remains firm AB 5 and says the new law is\nbest for the state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

AB\n5 stems from the  The Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court<\/em>\ndecision by the California Supreme Court in April 2018 that overturned three decades<\/a> of California employment\nlaw that allowed individuals to work as independent contractors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According<\/a> to Imindependent.com, \u201cThis decision\ncould upend how millions of Californians earn a living and nearly every\nindustry due to its new restrictive ABC test. The ABC test is the first time in\nU.S. history that such a test has been imposed by a court, without legislative\napproval, with three independently disqualifying factors.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newsom\nwho is pro-union like Gonzalez, said he will use part of the $20 million for\ntraining staff to allocate the ABC test and to allocate funding to investigate\nand hold hearings on compliance. A reporter from California Political Review\ncompared Newsom\u2019s tactics to the those of a communist regime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLike\nthe old Soviet Union you will be allowed to work only if government allows\nit\u2014under their conditions, not yours,\u201d wrote Stephen Frank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nterms of AB 5 are so murky that many companies are choosing to not work with\nanyone living in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freelancers Angry Over Assemblywoman Gonzalez\u2019 False Claims About Benefits “The terms of AB 5 are so murky that many companies are choosing to not work with anyone living in California.” Newsom Budgets Millions to Hunt Down AB-5 Violators By Michelle Mears, January 14, 2020 6:51 am \u201cLike the old Soviet Union you will be allowed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.responsible47.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}