California’s AB5 Goes National With the Independent Contractor Rule
The Acting Secretary of Labor, Julie Su, quietly dropped a revised Independent Contractor Rule on January 9, and it’s as bad as expected.
It’s official. Gavin Newsom’s war on workers has just been taken national by Biden and Julie Su. They’ve announced an “Independent Contractor” rule based on California’s notorious AB 5 law. It will put millions of Americans out of work.
The Independent Contractor Rule was recorded in the federal register on January 10, 2024, and is scheduled to take effect on March 10, 2024. It is 339 pages of essentially the Department of Labor justifying why independent contractors should not be allowed to exist. The rule acts from the premise that independent contractors have no right to determine whether they are independent or an employee. It is the DOL’s job to do that for you.
Who benefits from these Department of Labor and NRLB Rule changes? The Labor Unions, which poured millions into the 2020 Biden campaign for the presidency and expect a return on their investment.
Rules are not laws. Laws are supposed to be passed by Congress, then signed by the President. The Dept. of Labor should not be issuing ‘rules’ that ruin the livelihood of millions of Americans.
On the North River 
All that matters to leftists is control…power over others. Independent Contractors are much more difficult to control than employees. Thus the need to ban Independent Contractors. This isn’t complicated. Evil, but not complicated.
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