The Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new regulations to reclassify many individual contractors as payroll employees. CNBC claims this could help freelancers “recover lost wages.” That’s just nonsense. The new rules will make it harder for some freelancers to support a family. It will also make it harder for them to do what they want to do. I know this because I saw what happened in California.
Four years ago, unions got Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez to push through a new law that reclassified gig workers. They were told they’d get higher wages, overtime and other benefits. Clueless media liked that. Vox called the law “a big win for workers everywhere.” Ha! A few months later, Vox media laid off hundreds of freelancers.
As the familiar chords and vocals of A Flock of Seagulls’ hit song “I Ran (So Far Away)” echoed around Morningstar Marinas, played by local band Squirt Gun, it would have been easy to assume this was a typical weekend scene in the Isles.
Frederica Academy celebrated May Day on Friday with a traditional wrapping of the May Pole, performances by its lower school classes and the naming of a May king and queen. It was the first ceremony to be held on the pavers and artificial turf in front of the also new Jones Hall. The parents…
A handful of Norwich Street business owners got together Friday to discuss day-to-day issues and to restart the conversation on a 2018 proposal to revive the commercial corridor.
