Comments on: US freelancers may have no choice but to vote for Trump due to Biden-imposed federal rule https://www.freelanceinformer.com/news/us-freelancers-may-have-no-choice-but-to-vote-for-trump-due-to-biden-imposed-federal-rule/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-freelancers-may-have-no-choice-but-to-vote-for-trump-due-to-biden-imposed-federal-rule Empowering the Freelance Economy Wed, 06 Mar 2024 07:18:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Katherine Steiner-Dicks https://www.freelanceinformer.com/news/us-freelancers-may-have-no-choice-but-to-vote-for-trump-due-to-biden-imposed-federal-rule/#comment-6416 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 07:00:42 +0000 https://www.freelanceinformer.com/?p=20076#comment-6416 In reply to Richard Reibstein, Esquire.

Thank you, Mr. Reibstein for your comment and link to your authored article. However, despite your call for calm, US freelancers/contractors are not off the hook and cannot just sit back. Your article suggests there is little “legal development” however you also note that contractors must be knowledgeable about individual state laws and ever-changing regulations as they pertain to contractors and worker status tests. Freelancers unlike corporations do not have savings built up to fund legal cases. Is it not more likely under a Biden administration, if a case goes to court, rulings will lean more towards employee status rulings? Therefore, have cause for concern? Much like the UK, US contractors do not have a straight forward way of working, which in the end hurts the economy, the treasury’s purse, livelihoods and the businesses who require flexible and experienced talent for growth.

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By: Richard Reibstein, Esquire https://www.freelanceinformer.com/news/us-freelancers-may-have-no-choice-but-to-vote-for-trump-due-to-biden-imposed-federal-rule/#comment-6409 Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:30:31 +0000 https://www.freelanceinformer.com/?p=20076#comment-6409 The Biden Rule on independent contractors will have no legal significance, in much the same way that its predecessor rule issued by the Trump Labor Department had no legal significance, as explained in our blog post. See https://www.independentcontractorcompliance.com/2024/01/09/legally-nil-but-will-look-a-lot-like-a-score-labor-department-issues-its-final-rule-on-independent-contractor-status/. There is no need for any freelancers to be the least bit concerned about their legal position based on the issuance of the new rule. Of course, the media oftentimes creates newsworthy topics, even when there is little consequence to a particular legal development; freelancers and other independent contractors should not worry. If any business that once used a freelancer’s or IC’s services is concerned, they can share the above blog post with them.

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