I'm so glad you're with us here on the Clark Power Show where it's all about you learning

ways to keep more of what you have.

We have had a fight going on in the United States between workers and employers for at least

a generation because it's been about a full generation now that employers started using

independent contractors is more and more a part of their regular staffing.

And it is something that sometimes works out very well for the worker.

Other times it's an involuntary thing.

There are big companies that will lay people off and then hire them right back through

a third party contracting agency.

And the person comes back with a contractor badge instead of their employee badge and they

lose the benefits.

They lose their whatever job security they had in the rest.

And there are situations like that, but that's not the main action.

The main action has been this never-never land of when it's right and when it's wrong

for somebody to be classified as a non-employee to a 99 person independent contractor versus

being an employee.

And the reality is the courts have never been able to come up with a clear understanding

or a consistent system to determine when somebody is an employee and when they're an independent

contractor.

The laws passed in various jurisdictions have been very contentious.

There's been an ongoing fight in the state of California that passed a law that made people

like drivers for Uber and Lyft employees instead of contractors.

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