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Yikes. I get the issue they’re gesturing at (misclassification of workers and systematic undercompensation of gig labor), but these kinds of sweeping bills always end up causing more problems than they solve. @wildstein THREAD: https://www.trentonian.com/news/the-lives-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-new-jerseyans-are/article_91e95642-0c08-11ea-a16d-e311dc18d1ae.html">https://www.trentonian.com/news/the-...
There’s a way to do this without setting fire to much of the way that everyday New Jerseyans do business. It’s foolhardy to think that every economic activity occurs with relative permanence and yields the financial return that would justify full-on employment.
Phil Murphy, a former banker (!), KNOWS THIS and is choosing politics over rational policy.
You want to crack down on gig worker exploitation from the left without upending the system? Although it would probably still not be a great bill, a narrowly tailored policy that looked at hours worked, recurrence of labor, and other key indicators would be a D victory that...
wouldn’t have the horrific amd destructive economic outcomes that this bills would likely have (it would continue to have issues, as we need to consider how business would still pass on these prices to consumers, but I’m accepting as unfortunate fact that...
NJ has an anti-free market legislative majority and Governor).
Phil Murphy and Steve Sweeney should abandon this plan and go back to the drawing board. The author here illustrates some solid examples of the hobbyists and freelancers who would be hurt most by this legislation.
Until Murphy/Sweeney can articulate a plan that also works for those folks, these efforts are going to harm NJ far more than they will help. Thinking of my home state this evening. /thread
