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🗓️ 19 October 2020

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What’s the best way to protect the rights of workers? Let them determine their own job preferences, or mandate that companies provide them with certain protections? California has chosen to take the latter path. Has it worked? Is it a victory for workers, or a debilitating defeat? Patrice Onwuka of the Independent Women’s Forum looks into these questions. Her findings may surprise you.

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0:00.0	Workers of the world unite to protect your freedom.
0:03.8	You have nothing to lose, but your jobs,
0:06.8	which is exactly what is happening in California
0:09.6	and threatening to spread to the rest of the country.
0:12.6	Just what we need, right?
0:14.4	Fewer jobs and fewer people employed.
0:17.4	Why is this happening?
0:19.7	Exhibit A.
0:21.3	Assembly Bill 5 or AB 5 as it's commonly known.
0:25.7	Past by the California legislature
0:28.2	in September of 2019, AB 5 was authored
0:31.8	by a former Union boss assemblywoman, Lorraine Agonzalez.
0:35.6	The stated goal was to protect freelance workers
0:38.6	from employers taking advantage of them.
0:41.2	Instead, it is pushed thousands of these workers
0:44.3	into the unemployment line.
0:46.5	Here's why.
0:47.9	Workers in the United States are classified as either employees
0:51.4	or independent contractors, sometimes known as freelancers.
0:56.0	Independent contractors are self-employed
0:58.5	and contract their labor to one or more firms.
1:02.1	The upsides to this arrangement are clear.
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