", Paso Robles Press: "Correct. I have a business license, work in my own office, have multiple clients, and do large projects so the 35-piece limit per client isn't an issue. Not providing services to them violates ADA laws, but now we can’t serve them unless we are LLC’d. There is no upside to this for us. I am hired for various production work that’s, also, nothing more than a 1099. ", Julie Steele Casaccia: "We’ve been told by one of the largest agencies that unless we have an LLC by February, our contracts will be void. These people aren’t going to put him on payroll in order to do 1 movie or 1 Studio session for a couple of hundred dollars. Sometime very recently, both pages have been removed. Let’s listen to the greats. Are you serious? She has built this business over the last 4 years with blood, sweat and tears. Where should we head from here? AB5 specifically targets videographers, saying they are not eligible for the 35 submission carve out. Insanity. The musician’s union wants us all to join and they helped push this law. I would also have to work full-time as a therapist to make ends meet and abandon my career as a writer. She completes her work on her own terms and avoids a 3-hour commute in the busy Los Angeles county. You have destroyed the lives of thousands of people. The only options (as I understand it) are to have them volunteer and be paid only expenses (impossible to justify paying the same amounts), to make them employees and pay them minimum wage for every hour (more complicated and totally unaffordable for the company as we just don't have enough income from tickets etc. I will lose my home if I cannot work for these companies. I opted to quit the clinic and open a competitive business next door. Below: Watch Buttigieg endorse a carbon tax. My pay has dropped at least $3k/month, losing the last little bit of money I get will devastate me. And now that it is off the ground, AB5 comes out. I am writing you in regards to AB5 and how it affects myself and other meeting and event entertainment companies. Now I am no longer able to do this project recruiting work. #AB5 repeal today. ", Gail: "I am a sign language interpreter and have worked self employed for almost 20 years. I just finished a "real person" casting at the end of 2019. Some days I wake up feeling like I was hit by a truck. The same goes for our side of the industry. [Hayek] Students and freelancers rely upon the freedom to be able to earn income via these short term contracts - they don't want to be employees. Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek – Economics Rap Battle Round Two. ", Dana Buchanan: "We do all sizes of events, mostly in the 50 to 200 guest range. I have a pending job for a client to enable them to work remotely. Could be considered part of their core business. ", Anonymous: "Lorena please listen! When she has a large event, she will frequently subcontract out part of the production (putting together the floral table arrangements for example) to one of her local competitor / colleagues. With those Wall Street exec's and the firms that they bled ", "Living Dead Drummer": "As the drummer being hired #AB5 is going to CRUSH my lively hood and could end the careers of many talented musicians. ", Susan: "I am a tax preparer. I hire ICs who have their own legit businesses, have invested in their own gear, pay insurance on that gear, drive their own car to the gig, etc, etc. SB 246 (and similarly, HB 432) would allow workers moving into the state, who have licenses in good standing in other states, to practice without having to earn a new Ohio license from scratch. Sports? ", Robie Canlas: "I've been a luthier (someone who makes and repairs stringed instruments) for almost 13 years. I have to pick my kids up or drop them off. I just wanted to pop in and tell you I was talking to a composer friend who’s already lost 1/3rd of his projected 2020 income due to AB5. This isn't on them. In the sort term, they have cut off any new contracts to teachers in California. ", Elizabeth Grace Ankeny: "I'm a former teacher, now turned stay at home mom. For one, there is more back and forth rather than having to listen to Keynes the first half of the video. I had several thousand $$ set aside in my budget for him alone, but no more. PERMALINK. He was informed that he can no longer be a IC unless he purchases workers comp insurance & creates an LLC. The issues for myself and my colleagues are that rates have been stagnant or going down, as budgets and margins shrink. ", Susan: "As a freelance court reporter, AB 5 has upended my career. I've been impacted because half my work comes through colleagues, we contract one another, and agencies. Here now, the two economics heavyweights square off again, in spectacular rap-ified fashion: You can find more related material here. We set our own hours and determine if and when we want to work - no weekly/ monthly requirements. "", Susan, tweeted by Kevin Kiley: "#AB5stories, Susan: "I've worked as a court reporter since 1992. I now write for multiple publications and companies and, for the first time, feel in control of my mental health and livelihood. I refuse to get a job outside because I would be putting my health and my family’s at risk. It is forcing many small physician offices to close. I did my writing through a content mill, which has now blocked California writers from communicating with any new clients and is limiting us to 34 articles per year for the clients we already had. 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