Bill Spadea, whom most people in New Jersey know from morning drive time on NJ101.5 radio, welcomed me as a guest last week on his “Speak for America” TV show, which you can find here.
We talked for about six and a half minutes about what the State of New Jersey just did with regard to independent-contractor policy through Labor Department rulemaking, and why so many of us now hope that cooler heads will prevail as the Legislature looks to make changes before the newly adopted and deeply misguided rule takes effect on October 1.
In This Interview
Some things you’ll hear me mention in this interview, if you want to do a deeper dive for more information:
a public hearing that happened in Trenton on May 11 before the New Jersey Senate Labor Committee
evidence that research and data the State of New Jersey used to get us to this point is mischaracterized and in some cases wholly indefensible
economic research that shows New Jersey is already being harmed by this ABC Test policy
California research that, like the New Jersey economic research, found a disproportionate and negative effect on women with this kind of overly restrictive independent-contractor policy
You’ll also hear Bill mention the New Jersey Business & Industry Association’s opposition to this rulemaking. You can find what I believe is the NJBIA’s most recent story here (and lots more if you search the NJBIA website, such as this story published one day earlier).
As you watch the interview on Bill’s show about all of this and more, please forgive all the toys you can see behind me on my den floor. Molly the Beagle mix is now 4 months old. When I’m not fighting to stop freelance busting, I’m in an epic battle against teething.
