I was on evening drive-time radio this week on New Jersey’s biggest talk-radio station with host Eric Scott, who always does a great job of helping to keep the whole state aware of what’s happening with the independent-contractor policy problem.
You can click through here to watch the nine-minute clip on NJ101.5’s YouTube channel if the player below stalls out on your device.
We urged everyone to contact their lawmakers, asking for a delay to the October 1 independent-contractor rule so the Legislature can have time to act.
Sources for Things I Said on NJ101.5
Testimony by a state Assemblyman/union president trying to save his own wife’s side hustle from the looming independent-contractor rule while leaving all other professions hung out to dry
Public comments demonstrating 99% public opposition to the New Jersey Labor Department’s independent-contractor rulemaking, with the only real support coming from unionists
What happened when California started introducing all kinds of carveout bills, making the underlying policy mess even worse
Report by members of the California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights describing evidence of that state’s ABC Test law having a disproportionate, negative impact on women, immigrants, people of color and the politically powerless
Public comment that economists submitted about how the ABC Test regulatory language is already harming women disproportionately in New Jersey
Industry data about various male-dominated professions getting preferential carveouts right now in Trenton
Bill that would carve out financial advisers
Bill that would carve out golf caddies
Letter from New Jersey Senate President Nick Scutari asking Governor Mikie Sherrill for a delay in the rule’s effective date so the Legislature can have time to ask
Letter from New Jersey Senator Parker Space and Assembly members Dawn Fantasia and Mike Inganamort requesting the same delay from Governor Sherrill
New Jersey Business & Industry Association form that people can fill out to request that Governor Sherrill delay the October 1 implementation date of her administration’s independent-contractor rule