California's push to classify gig-economy workers as company employees is beginning to influence the discussion in other blue states, prompting lawsuits from workers and a frantic lobbying blitz from a swath of industries
TRENTON, N.J. — California's push to classify gig-economy workers as company employees is beginning to influence the discussion in other blue states, prompting lawsuits from workers and a frantic lobbying blitz from a swath of industries.for misclassifying its drivers, and state lawmakers in Trenton are moving a worker classification bill with the kind of speed and controversy lobbyists say they haven't seen in years.
In California, freelance journalists are suing to block the law, and Vox Media said on Monday that it would cut hundreds of SB Nation freelancers as the law’s January implementation approaches. Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez , the author of the law, said Vox’s decision showed the company had been misclassifying workers but that also she is working on a change to allay concerns from freelancers.
“If you’re truly an independent contractor then this is not going to affect you,” Sweeney said. “But there’s many businesses — construction, trucking, you name it — where they classify their workers as independent contractors and they’re not. They’re depriving their workers of protections and cheating the state out of revenue.”, where a group of labor advocates has formed a coalition to impose a new standard for what qualifies as an "independent contractor.
The Labor Department issued an opinion letter in April clarifying that workers who are connected to jobs via app-based platforms don’t meet the legal definition of an employee under federal minimum wage and overtime law, citing a six-part legal test. And in January, the National Labor Relations Board, which adjudicates labor disputes, reversed an Obama-era decision that made it harder for employers to classify workers as independent contractors under federal labor law.
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