Despite Americans ditching traditional jobs for flexible work arrangements, millions of freelancers — including independent contractors — are at risk of being displaced from the workforce if regulators succeed in reclassifying workers as employees.https://ea0f0135fcec2b032483ed6553667289.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html
The 3-2 Democrat-led National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency tasked with remedying “unfair labor practices” committed by private-sector employees and unions, wants to rework the current independent contractor standard framework by exchanging the common-law test for an ABC test. The established test is used by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to assess the level of control and independence a worker has over their work, while an ABC test mandates workers meet three criteria to avoid being classified as employees.
If the NLRB succeeds in retooling laws pertaining to worker status, freelancers risk being regulated out of existence.