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(Tim is a democrate who is just outraged by the democrats...easy to see why)
California’s new 35-story limit for freelancers
CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY BILL 5, in its original language, seemed as though it could end freelance journalism in the state. The bill, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law September 18, codifies and expands on a 2018 California Supreme Court decision that made it harder for companies to classify workers as freelancers rather than employees. As employees, workers are covered by state laws on the minimum wage, worker’s compensation coverage, workplace discrimination and other protections. As freelancers, they are not.
The bill grabbed nationwide headlines because it appears to define the workers at Uber, Lyft, and other “gig economy” tech companies as employees, covered by a range of workplace protections. When it became clear the bill would pass, Uber, Lyft, and Doordash pledged $90 million toward qualifying a ballot measure that would let them continue to classify their drivers as independent contractors.
The core of the Dynamex decision, and of the new law, is a three-pronged “ABC test,” which is used to determine who is and isn’t a freelancer. The “B” prong, which presents the biggest issue for freelance journalism, states that employers can only contract out work that is “outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business.” A company in the business of journalism, then, could not hire freelancers to do journalism.
As CJR reported in March, some publishers responded to the Dynamex ruling by cutting ties with freelancers based in California. The passage of Assembly Bill 5 offers some relief: freelance writers, editors, photographers and editorial cartoonists were given a partial carve-out, allowing publishers to hire them for up to 35 separate “content submissions” in a given year. (The law exempts more than 20 professions, including doctor, lawyer, manicurist, travel agent and commercial fisherman. Graphic designers have a full exemption, which means California judges could find themselves ruling on how much Photoshop work it takes to distinguish photography from graphic design.)
PREVIOUSLY: A California class-action suit imperils freelancers
It’s not hard to find freelancers who say they will run into that limit. “I’ve worked for sites such as AOL that are mostly run with senior editors doing longer stories and freelancers doing the daily news hits, and in my experience it’s been really easy to go over 35 bylines in less than a month with those,” Zac Estrada, a writer and editor in Los Angeles who covers automotive and technology news for a variety of publications, says. “Earlier this year, I was working for a site doing daily news contributions, and they wanted at least 50 per month.”
https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/california-assembly-bill-5.php
The free speech haters are on the move.
How are the people going to deal with all the attacks on the essential 5th estate that democracy and republic voters depend on for accurate information on the relevant issues? We have all seen CNN going under for its now admitted part in the fakenews trumphate coup attempt.
Is this what we the people can expect in the future? One just has to look at how the 911 story has disintegrated* with the OS now totally discredited, which would have been impossible to do without the constant investigative efforts of some very patriotic people the likes of which are now in great professional and ethical danger...and because of that, so are the rest of us.
"Project Veritas" Hidden Camera Footage From Inside CNN
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...as_hidden_camera_footage_from_inside_cnn.html
*ALASKA-LED TEAM VINDICATES 911 ‘TRUTHERS’
The leading program in Alaska for engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and an organization called “Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth,” have created a partnership in an investigative study of what brought down Building 7 of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
The release of the draft report on Sept. 3 triggered a two-month public comment process.
[Read the report at this UAF link]
http://ine.uaf.edu/media/222439/uaf_wtc7_draft_report_09-03-2019.pdf
The draft report concludes that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of the several national private engineering firms and the government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The study concludes that the collapse of WTC 7 was instead a “global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building.
https://mustreadalaska.com/breaking-uaf-study-says-government-wrong-world-trade-center-collapse/
(Tim is a democrate who is just outraged by the democrats...easy to see why)
California’s new 35-story limit for freelancers
CALIFORNIA ASSEMBLY BILL 5, in its original language, seemed as though it could end freelance journalism in the state. The bill, which Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law September 18, codifies and expands on a 2018 California Supreme Court decision that made it harder for companies to classify workers as freelancers rather than employees. As employees, workers are covered by state laws on the minimum wage, worker’s compensation coverage, workplace discrimination and other protections. As freelancers, they are not.
The bill grabbed nationwide headlines because it appears to define the workers at Uber, Lyft, and other “gig economy” tech companies as employees, covered by a range of workplace protections. When it became clear the bill would pass, Uber, Lyft, and Doordash pledged $90 million toward qualifying a ballot measure that would let them continue to classify their drivers as independent contractors.
The core of the Dynamex decision, and of the new law, is a three-pronged “ABC test,” which is used to determine who is and isn’t a freelancer. The “B” prong, which presents the biggest issue for freelance journalism, states that employers can only contract out work that is “outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business.” A company in the business of journalism, then, could not hire freelancers to do journalism.
As CJR reported in March, some publishers responded to the Dynamex ruling by cutting ties with freelancers based in California. The passage of Assembly Bill 5 offers some relief: freelance writers, editors, photographers and editorial cartoonists were given a partial carve-out, allowing publishers to hire them for up to 35 separate “content submissions” in a given year. (The law exempts more than 20 professions, including doctor, lawyer, manicurist, travel agent and commercial fisherman. Graphic designers have a full exemption, which means California judges could find themselves ruling on how much Photoshop work it takes to distinguish photography from graphic design.)
PREVIOUSLY: A California class-action suit imperils freelancers
It’s not hard to find freelancers who say they will run into that limit. “I’ve worked for sites such as AOL that are mostly run with senior editors doing longer stories and freelancers doing the daily news hits, and in my experience it’s been really easy to go over 35 bylines in less than a month with those,” Zac Estrada, a writer and editor in Los Angeles who covers automotive and technology news for a variety of publications, says. “Earlier this year, I was working for a site doing daily news contributions, and they wanted at least 50 per month.”
https://www.cjr.org/united_states_project/california-assembly-bill-5.php
The free speech haters are on the move.
How are the people going to deal with all the attacks on the essential 5th estate that democracy and republic voters depend on for accurate information on the relevant issues? We have all seen CNN going under for its now admitted part in the fakenews trumphate coup attempt.
Is this what we the people can expect in the future? One just has to look at how the 911 story has disintegrated* with the OS now totally discredited, which would have been impossible to do without the constant investigative efforts of some very patriotic people the likes of which are now in great professional and ethical danger...and because of that, so are the rest of us.
"Project Veritas" Hidden Camera Footage From Inside CNN
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/v...as_hidden_camera_footage_from_inside_cnn.html
*ALASKA-LED TEAM VINDICATES 911 ‘TRUTHERS’
The leading program in Alaska for engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and an organization called “Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth,” have created a partnership in an investigative study of what brought down Building 7 of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
The release of the draft report on Sept. 3 triggered a two-month public comment process.
[Read the report at this UAF link]
http://ine.uaf.edu/media/222439/uaf_wtc7_draft_report_09-03-2019.pdf
The draft report concludes that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of the several national private engineering firms and the government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology.
The study concludes that the collapse of WTC 7 was instead a “global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building.
https://mustreadalaska.com/breaking-uaf-study-says-government-wrong-world-trade-center-collapse/
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