Biden has expressed support for the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act on his campaign website.
The PRO Act would use the same three-pronged ABC test as California’s AB-5 law to decide who is a freelancer nationwide.
AB-5 classifies contractors as employees and makes it hard for freelancers to work for businesses in their industry.
With the presidential election coming, Carolyn Bothwell, a freelance copywriter from Charlestown, Massachusetts, has been hearing from concerned members of the freelancer community she started, Freelance Founders, about what the results may mean for their business.
Some are wondering what Democratic candidate Vice President Joe Biden’s public support for AB-5, a union-backed California law, aimed at preventing the misclassification of rideshare drivers by giving them the status and protections of full-time employees, means for the future of their businesses. AB-5 had to be modified repeatedly after taking effect on Jan. 1, 2020, because it was putting so many other types of freelancers out of work. “They are really worried about it,” says Bothwell. That’s because Biden -- historically a supporter of unions -- wants a federal law similar to AB-5 that could place steep restrictions on who can be a freelancer.
With more Americans freelancing than ever before, the future of freelance work is a key concern for some workers as the presidential election approaches. A recent Upwork survey, Freelance Forward 2020, found that 59 million Americans did some form of freelancing in 2019, up 2 million from the year before.
Many freelancers across the nation have been keeping an eye on headlines about AB-5. The law that took effect on Jan. 1, 2020 is an attempt to address inequities in the gig economy including the independent contractor policies of ride-sharing companies such as Lyft and Uber. It assumes that every worker in the state is an employee unless employers can prove otherwise using the rigorous “ABC test” it is based on.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/17/why-freelancers-fear-a-biden-presidency-may-put-them-out-of-work.html
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[–] waldo1899 [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
59 million Trump votes....unless they are beyond stupid
[–] ClaytonBigsby313 ago (edited ago)
59 million men is an army that can take the world.
Bring it. Put them out of work. Drive them into our arms. Make them see that the only future for them and their children is war.
DO IT. DO IT NOW.
[–] gonadsofsteel 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago
This isnt going to stop people freelancing.. what a fucking hyperbole.. seriously! That law is designed to stop large companies from NOT paying sick and leave entitlements to workers. That in no way stops someone from freelancing. Its fixed so easily by just havign a consent clause in direct freelancing contracts.
[–] prairie 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Translation from Nannyspeak: the law will force freelancers to be provided sick and leave entitlements, even if they don't want them and the hit to their pay they necessarily entail.
[–] gonadsofsteel 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
No. read my comment you blind fuck.