Archive - Freelance Busting

I am sincerely honored to receive the Institute for the American Worker's 2025 Defender of Worker Freedom Award.

16 hrs ago • Kim Kavin

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.

Dec 15 • Kim Kavin

ACR177 Joins SCR138

These companion documents are intended to prohibit or invalidate the New Jersey Labor Department's proposed independent-contractor rule.

Dec 10 • Kim Kavin

A New Jersey congressman's report says Steve Sweeney, Robert Asaro-Angelo and others met in 2017 to discuss reclassifying independent contractors.

Dec 8 • 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.

Dec 4 • Kim Kavin

In Trenton today, I urged New Jersey lawmakers to think about more than golf caddies, and instead to protect all independent contractors.

Dec 1 • Kim Kavin

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November 2025

The Golf Caddie Bill

A hearing is now scheduled in Trenton for this single-profession legislation that would protect caddies' independent-contractor status.

Nov 26 • 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.

Nov 24 • 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.

Nov 20 • Kim Kavin

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…

Nov 17 • Kim Kavin

Let's Do This, Jersey

Two items were just introduced in the state Legislature. One would protect a few kinds of independent contractors. The other could help us all.

Nov 13 • Kim Kavin

Legal Services of New Jersey argues in its public comment that a plumber isn't in a law firm's usual course of business, but a landscaper very well may…

Nov 10 • Kim Kavin

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