Freelance Busting

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This Is Basic Math
New Jersey's unemployment rate is up. Companies will not magically create new jobs for the state's estimated 1.7 million independent contractors.
 • Kim Kavin
ACR177 Joins SCR138
These companion documents are intended to prohibit or invalidate the New Jersey Labor Department's proposed independent-contractor rule.
 • Kim Kavin
The Strategy
A New Jersey congressman's report says Steve Sweeney, Robert Asaro-Angelo and others met in 2017 to discuss reclassifying independent contractors.
 • Kim Kavin
The Skilled Subset
New research from Fiverr says there are 6.9 million "skilled independent workers" in the United States earning a combined $319 billion in revenue.
 • Kim Kavin
2:57
'We Need More'
In Trenton today, I urged New Jersey lawmakers to think about more than golf caddies, and instead to protect all independent contractors.
 • Kim Kavin
The Golf Caddie Bill
A hearing is now scheduled in Trenton for this single-profession legislation that would protect caddies' independent-contractor status.
 • Kim Kavin
The Valuable Consideration
There's now legislation to protect New Jersey real-estate brokers, in addition to a bill for truckers, insurance producers and investment advisers.
 • Kim Kavin
There Is No Spoon
New Jersey's public comments reveal a matrix of freelance busting, but little evidence of a widespread misclassification problem.
 • Kim Kavin
The Individual
When I read this comment supporting New Jersey's proposed rule, I suspected it was an AI fake. I was right, and I was wrong. Reality complicates…
 • Kim Kavin
Freelance Busting
Freelance Busting
News and analysis about attacks on our right to choose self-employment, from a leader of the independent-contractor resistance

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