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It may be worth noting that as of two weeks ago AB5 makes the "just recharacterize your employees as contractors" play much more difficult.
by dweekly 7y ago
It may be worth noting that as of two weeks ago AB5 makes the "just recharacterize your employees as contractors" play much more difficult.
- amluto 7y agoI'm not sure this is relevant. You can bring in an outside company as a contractor, and that company can have employees that effectively work for you but aren't employed by you.
- gnicholas 7y agoDefinitely true. As other commenters have noted, you can just outsource the function to another company. That is, I don't think AB5 has any impact on a worker who is an employee of a janitorial firm that is contracted to a tech company. I think it only applies to workers who are directly contracted with/employed by the main company itself. The law would be agnostic about this because the worker is getting the benefits of employment so long as he/she is an employee of some company. This new proposed legislation would make it matter which company is designated as the employer, for purposes of ratio calculation. Note: I have not been able to find the text of this bill, nor have I read AB5 (just read news about it).
- cjlars 7y agoNot true at all. You simply bring in the workers through an employment agency. AB5 does not impact consultants.