Protecting Workers

Sadly, the journalist who mentioned this,
and voiced opposition to it,
appears to have given no thought at all
to how it might affect people who are not journalists.
Employers who legitimately contract independent contractors
are already keeping these records for their own purposes,
primarily tax-related.
The "independent contractor" ruse is used not only to defraud workers
--and not merely of benefits to which they are legally entitled--
but to hire illegal aliens, who aren't about to report the irregularities surrounding their income.

::nods::

I agree. There are far too many employers, who when it comes time to lower their expenditures, look to their employees as a means to cut costs.

When I first started teaching at a known facility, I was an independent contractor. It worked out OK.

Then, they decided to turn us into employees; this meant that we got only 2/3rds the pay we had previously earned.

But- in defiance of the state regulations- they also required that we attend various meetings- which the law said we should be paid for- but they were not willing to pay for them.

This is one of the reasons I quit; I am not willing to defy the law and apply time to a job when I am not getting paid, especially if that non-payment was illegal. They cannot have it both ways. If they decided we were employees, then they needed to compensate us like employees; it is not their right to pick and choose to be as cheap as possible while expecting that we, the employees, will cover them and have it all to OUR disadvantage.