\n\n“California’s attempt at forcing gig workers to become traditional employees backfired by driving many of those workers out of their jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the wake of a new law (Assembly Bill 5) that was intended to reclassify many independent contractors as regular employees, self-employment in California fell by 10.5 percentand overall employment tumbled by 4.4 percent, according to a study<\/a> released Thursday by the Mercatus Center, a free market think tank housed at George Mason University. In professions where self-employment was more common, the effects were more dramatic, and in some fields employment declined by as much as 28 percent after A.B. 5’s implementation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n