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""you have to work 70 80 hours a week just to survive freelancers like uber drivers are being abused say the media this driver has a three-year-old and a one-year-old but says he hardly gets to spend any time with them I have to work at everything all day more than 10 hours 11 hours so in California unions pushed for a new law it passed make sure that the 1 million independent contractors in California get the wages and benefits that they deserve Assemblywoman Gonzalez wrote the law that dictates millions of freelancers must now be hired as employees gig workers win historic victories of the media they'll get benefits they need like a minimum wage overtime sick pay politicians said this will help freelancers a lot you're thinking you're helping us but you're not freelancers like Ari Hurst and say this law hurts us this law was written to help the little guy I'm the little guy I'm a musician this could single-handedly crash the California music economy I'll play a gig at a venue in in LA and I want to hire a drummer a bassist and a guitar player 200 bucks each now before I just cut them a check for $200 now I actually have to take that drummer put him on payroll w-2 them get workers comp insurance unemployment insurance I have to pay payroll taxes I also have to now hire a payroll company not only that if he works for someone else I'm gonna have to be an employee of that music venue when I just play there once once a year maybe and so the music venues we're gonna start to see those shutting down having a good one yes the law targeted rideshare companies like uber and lyft politicians claimed the companies abused drivers but now many drivers are upset by the laws saying I like being independent I don't want a boss to tell me when or where to drive I like making money making deliveries cuz I'm on my own schedule this is my favorite pastime right now when I get into an uber or a lift I asked my driver what do you think about this new log either they don't know about it or they're not in favor of it either and I'm like oh wait why don't you like that this law was written to help you like oh well I'm a recording engineer I'm a photographer and I'm this is my fourth side gig like I just I want to do this when I want to do this and if now I'm an employee and I'm W - they're gonna dictate my hours I don't want that the reason I do this is for the freedom and the flexibility but the lawmakers say we know better when you have to take a side job or a third gig or fourth gig that's not flexibility that's feudalism no but we want to you're preventing us from doing what we want to do it's not something we need we even want you know we want to leave it the way it is the law upset truck drivers to dozens of independents who own and operate their own trucks drove around the capital protesting the bill their protest won them an exemption from the law these other politically connected professions got exemptions - I've been trying to work out our cleanup bill to give the music industry an exemption from this law you get an exemption and the truck drivers get an exemption why is that good law exception for who's ever clever enough to get to the politician it's definitely not the solution can you just write us out of this law and help us out here too here's some money for your new campaign for your next campaign like no that doesn't seem like that's a way to kind of legislate no it doesn't but that's how it's often done and now other politicians want a copy California's law new york's already started to adopt it New Jersey Illinois and the House of Representatives passed a similar bill because politicians say freelance work is exploitive abusive it's a scam it's a fraud I don't feel like I'm being taken advantage of by anybody neither do these dancers they got in the assembly woman's face about it I work at a club I have a toy I know I work at a cord you let me when Gonzalez lobbied for the law she didn't mention jobs that her law might kill but she did say it preserves our current union jobs it's been rumored that the unions pretty much wrote this law and handed it to Assemblywoman Gonzalez and said hey passed this a b v is backed by labor groups who want to unionize gig workers if you look at her top donor list number one and two our unions at first the media were also big supporters of the law gig workers Winn said Vox but once the law passed Vox media cut hundreds of freelance jobs they were expecting that all of these companies were going to reclassify their contractors their independent contractors as employees in reality what's actually happening is they're just letting them all go what do you have to say to those freelance journalists those independent contractors who were working and have now lost their jobs because of a B five-year bill first of all it wasn't a job these aren't jobs these are freelance positions that may be three hours a month and it may be 300 hours a month the arrogance of politicians people chose these jobs freelancers liked the flexibility politicians have no right to say all those jobs aren't good Gonzalez would not agree to an interview and now that there's a backlash neither would the unions or any of the 75 law professors political scientists and sociologists who signed this letter in support of the law they're embarrassed that they made this huge mistake that they supported something they are taking it back there well there are politics at play unfortunately and no politician wants to admit he did something wrong exactly no politician ever wants to admit that they did something wrong""