Last night, host Bill Spadea and I talked for about 10 minutes about New Jersey’s widely opposed independent-contractor rule that is scheduled to take effect next week.
You can find the link to the “Speak for America with Bill Spadea” channel here, with my segment near the top.
He talks in this clip about, among other things, how this rulemaking will affect him too, because some of the work he does is as an independent contractor.
Source Material for Everything I said on This Show
Op-ed that then-New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney wrote about “misinformation” where he compared freelancers like me to Russian disinformation agents who interfere in elections, because we said he was trying to copy California’s ABC Test law
New Jersey Labor Department acknowledgment that Sweeney’s bill in 2019 was, in fact, trying to copy California’s ABC Test law
New Jersey acting Labor Commissioner Kevin Jarvis’ recent comments in the press, once again claiming “misinformation” (and my breakdown of why he parsed his words the way he did)
Report by members of the California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights that found that state’s ABC Test law had a disproportionate and negative impact on women, immigrants, people of color and the politically powerless
Public comment that economists filed with the New Jersey Labor Department showing that the way the state is using the ABC Test right now is already causing harm, and disproportionately to women
A breakdown of the written public comments that New Jersey’s Labor Department received, showing 99% opposition to this ABC Test rulemaking, and including a list of the two dozen or so comments that were the only ones in support—mostly from unions and organizations like multimillion-dollar think tanks that have strong union ties
An analysis of how what’s happening in New Jersey’s media right now is a replay of what happened in California, right down to some of the talking points that the unionists out there tried to use, too
