That law will put a lot of people out of a job.
By making them employees, the company will have to provide health insurance and Social Security payments.
That latter item can cost a company over $6000/year per employee, a price that could easily put a company out of business if they have very many of those part time workers.
Of course the law makers don't give a shit. They are only looking for more money going into the 'system' under the pretext of looking like they are on the workers side.
You are exactly right and that is what the analysts are saying about the law, which the Governor says he will sign. But guess what? The legislators and "progressives" don't give a shit (as you say) - which they ignore anyway while walking around the streets of San Francisco.
I assume that if tens of thousands of people get laid off because small businesses close, or just can't afford to make their independent contractors (which are now working and can work at more than one job), full-time employees, which will then become homeless, the politicians will feel sorry for them and rush to help them out with public funds so that their lives living on the street in a tent will be more comfortable.
It just occurred to me that maybe an up and coming job career for someone who wanted to start up a new business would be making tents designed for California public sidewalk living.
I just heard a new report about the law that said that independent musicians and singers are not exempted from the law. So if you want to create a band you will have to pay your other band members as employees and pay them as if they were working at a Ford factory.
What hasn't been mentioned yet is that the law would likely apply to seniors who hire an in-home care person as they get older and don't want (or can't afford) to live in a nursing home. Can you imagine a 90-year old woman having to pay a person helping them live in their home as a full-time employee, with breaks, paid lunchtime, overtime after 8 hours of work, health insurance, paid vacations, deducting income and SS taxes, etc., etc.?
That is just crazy! I might add that I have a friend who just had to place his mother in a nursing home when she fell down and broke her hip. She is paying $10,000 a month to live in the facility. It won't take long before she goes broke and has to sell the home that she lived in all of her life. What a way to spend the last years of your life and then end up with nothing.
The Government is here to help.
The latest reports say that newspapers (the LA Times was mentioned) are very much concerned what this law will do to their paper delivery services. Right now they pay independent contractors per paper delivered, but if they had to employee paperboys full time that would really put the printed paper home delivery service in financial jeopardy. The law gives newspaper companies one year to figure it out before it will apply to them.
The state's newspaper publishing organization took out a 1/2 page ad in today's newspaper complaining about the new law and stating that it will likely put smaller newspapers out of business because they can't afford to pay newspaper delivery people as full-time employees.