Comments on: Gig/freelancer economy roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/03/gig-freelancer-economy-roundup-2/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 22 Mar 2020 23:29:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Thomas G Wicklund https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/03/gig-freelancer-economy-roundup-2/comment-page-1/#comment-358763 Sun, 22 Mar 2020 23:29:24 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=74011#comment-358763 One could also argue AB5 is a tax measure. I imagine most local musicians never bothered to report their income on taxes (to be fair, most local musicians don’t make very much either). I’m sure this is true of other traditional freelance work. Meeting employment requirements means reporting income and withholding taxes.

]]> By: Thomas G Wicklund https://www.overlawyered.com/2020/03/gig-freelancer-economy-roundup-2/comment-page-1/#comment-358748 Sat, 21 Mar 2020 21:50:20 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=74011#comment-358748 I’m surprised I haven’t seen arguments that California’s AB5 was designed to encourage an economy consisting of a small number of very large corporations profiting off the labor of low paid former freelancers.

I’m also surprised some enterprising person hasn’t figured out how to create a shell “employer” for freelancers so they can continue to work more or less as they have in the past. If day labor is still legal in California I’d think a freelancer version could be created.

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