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Labor Relations Radio, E112—The War on Independent Contractors, Part IV: A Panel Discussion With Freelancers Against AB5

Karen Anderson and a panel of Californians impacted by the War on Independent Contractors share their stories.

 
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I was a part of this important conversation organized by Peter List and Karen Anderson of Freelancers Against AB5 about California's #AB5, the Independent Contractor Rule, and how our experiences are a cautionary tale of what will occur if this rule is not rescinded. This is no longer about crazy California; if you are an independent professional, solopreneur, or self-employed in the other 49 states, the wolf is now at your door. -

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In this fourth episode in our four-part series on the War on Independent Contractors, Karen Anderson, founder of Freelancers Against AB5—a Facebook group of more than 18,000 Californians impacted by the state’s imposition of AB5 which contains the three-pronged ‘ABC Test’— returns to Labor Relations Radio, along with a panel of independent contractors who have been harmed by the law.

As proverbial ‘canaries in the coal mine,’ as the U.S. Department of Labor rolls out its 339-page final rule—which contains a vague six-factor test—on independent contractors, the panel consists of of freelance writers, musicians (including a concert cellist), a radio journalist, yoga instructor and independent film producer share their stories as a warning to the rest of America.

To contact your representative in Congress, use this link at Congress.gov. and urge them to stop the War on Independent Contractors.


Listen to the entire Labor Relations Radio series on the War on Independent Contractors:

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