California Strikes A Blow To Freelance Journalism

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Easily the most important papers in regards to getting people to back the Constitution is the United States Federalist Papers, which were written with the goal of getting people to support the idea of a strong federal government and published in various local newspapers. Of the 85 papers, 51 of them were written by Alexander Hamilton, the 1st Secretary of Treasury and guy who had a musical named after him.

Doing that would now be illegal in the state of California.

If you do not know what I’m talking about, you have not heard of Assembly Bill 5. I will now allow The Hollywood Reporter to explain the bill:

The bill, which cracks down on companies — like ride-sharing giants Lyft and Uber — that misclassify would-be employees as independent contractors, has been percolating through the California legislative system for nearly a year. It codifies the 2018 Dynamex decision by the State Supreme Court while carving out some exemptions for specific professions.