This particular legislation is intended to address the case where a company hires people as contractors while treating them as employees. Specifically, compani

This particular legislation is intended to address the case where a company hires people as contractors while treating them as employees. Specifically, companies are allowed to treat people as contractors only when the work performed " a) is under the worker’s control and not that of the business, b) is not part of the company’s core business, and c) is part of the worker’s independent profession." Many freelancers will be entirely unaffected by that. >I don't see any reason to limit people's freedom if they choose to go independent and create their own conditions. Because the people the law was written for don't have a choice. The companies they work for didn't offer them a choice between employee and contractor, if they wanted the job they had to accept being a contractor. A lot of low end work these days is contract work, finding a position as an actual employee can be difficult (depending on the field of course). Very few of the people I talk to who are contractors are classified as such by choice. At some point, shouldn't helping the people at the bottom be a good thing even if a few better off freelancers have to make some changes (i.e. seeking employment with the companies they work for rather than contract status)?