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[–] MaungaHikoi 7 points 1 year ago

This isn't going to fix anything except make sure that the gig economy continues to fuck workers. I say that as someone covered by this potential legislation- there's clear rules around who counts as an independent contractor and I've never had problems keeping to those rules because I want to retain my status as independent. You can't contract out of things like the CGA or basic labour laws, and that should continue to apply here. Seymour is cutting the courts ability to decide on the edge cases in favour of a broad brush that will absolutely result in more "independent" contractor gigs cropping up and further downwards pressure on workers and wages.