It’s official: the Biden-Harris management hates separate companies. A labyrinthine series of rules was passed by the Department of Labor earlier this year (are n’t restrictions always too sophisticated for their own great? reclassifying different categories of independent companies as people.
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Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su oversaw the California Department of Labor, and under her leadership, the state managed to pass AB5 legislation, which made independent contractors employees at the behest of labor unions, despite the fact that the majority of freelancers and other independent contractors do what they do because they do n’t want to be employees. Su has now used executive fiat to accomplish the same thing at the national level.
As Rick Moran reported, the California Supreme Court came to the rescue next month and relaxed some of the country’s laws governing contractors and job workers. However, the federal laws are also stirring up controversy.
Two of the world’s largest trucking companies have found themselves at chances over the government’s independent contractor rules. Earlier this month, Chris Spear, president and CEO of the American Trucking Associations ( ATA ), penned an op-ed at Transport Topics decrying Su’s bureaucratic meddling.
Knife wrote:
Su oversaw the execution of the disastrous law known as AB 5 as California’s key labour regulation, which decimated independent contractors and forced skilled drivers into an impossible situation: Either move and relocate, or risk having everything you worked for being taken away. Su has shown the exact animosity toward ICs in her latest role, refusing to consider their viewpoints and contempt for their ability to make a living.
More than moderate her jobs, Su has doubled down in Washington, pressing the bounds of her power to tip the scales and copy the nation’s work laws in California’s picture. It’s the reason why her election to be the secretary of labor has been a drag in the Senate for almost a month and a half. No one in our market should back the radical plan Su hatched in California and is attempting to trade it all over the country.
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Spear also noted that the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association ( OOIDA ) is one of the groups opposed to Su’s nomination, yet the OOIDA agrees with the Department of Labor’s regulations, which he says makes standards more complicated and prone to litigation. He called the OOIDA out on its lobbying.
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It’s” surprising next to learn that OOIDA, which claims to represent the interests of independent drivers, has changed its mind and is now supporting Su’s disastrous IC rule, her signature policy as acting secretary,” Spear wrote. He eventually added:
An OOIDA standard went so far as to refute her doubtful assertions in comments to lawmakers that separate truckers would not be affected by the rule if they “are in a cooperative rent working for a provider with a rent agreement.” In other words, if you like your IC program, you can maintain your IC program. However, this will definitely not be the case in practice, much like another notoriously broken promises from Washington.
Spear made his remarks after Lewie Pugh, a member of OOIDA, testified before Congress about what he perceives as national overregulation in the shipping industry. Pugh criticized the numerous obligations the federal government places on drivers and trucking companies.
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” Pugh ripped into various government demands that are in position, pending or casually proposed”, John Kingston of FreightWaves reported this week about Pugh’s July 24 evidence. Pugh’s opening remarks were a volley against what OOIDA perceives as extreme government regulation, and they received especially powerful criticism from them.
While compliance prices have never been higher, there are those who, along with officials, include those who “refuse to modernize or eliminate needless rules” and who want to implement even higher standards on the American trucker, according to Pugh, according to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
However, one almost offensive comment sparked the ATA and Spears ‘ outcry. When a senator asked Pugh his opinions on the Department of Labor’s separate vendor regulations, he replied,” We’re great with the new law”.
Ironically enough, the ATA and OOIDA are working on the petition to stop California from using AB5 against truck owners. But, the tension between the two parties cools over the national regulation.
” It’s ludicrous to believe that these people give a hoot about little company drivers, because they never have”, OOIDA President Todd Spencer told FreightWaves. ” They’ve been on the wrong side of every issue for the last 40 ages”.
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Craig Fuller, the leader of FreightWaves, has given the two companies the chance to discuss the subject at the project’s F3 Conference in November. As of this writing, neither firm has signed on, but until then, they’ll continue to be at odds on this important issue.
