Last year California passed #AB5, affording gig workers protections and benefits like a minimum wage and overtime pay.
Now, gig economy giants are trying to gut the law and exempt their workers. It's unacceptable.
I urge Californians to vote no on the initiative this November.
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Replying to @JoeBiden
It also hit freelance performers really hard and risks gutting the arts. It is not a universally good bill.
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Replying to @coolwebfriend @JoeBiden
A lot of my friends who produced small but regular shows like burlesque and variety arts shows couldn’t afford all of the requirements to “employ” instead of “hire” performers and had to stop their shows. A lot of them also stopped getting gigs
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Replying to @meredithgene @JoeBiden
Just so I'm understanding-- your friends fired their contractors because these benefits were too costly? Sympathetic to the impact on those folks-- but if these productions relied on misclassification of employees, maybe they weren't sustainable in the first placepic.twitter.com/AIgzNeuu9M
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imagine being the kind of person who logs on twitter dot com and tells someone he doesn’t know her friends deserve to lose their jobs
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