Today, Fight For Freelancers filed a public comment urging the New Jersey Department of Labor & Workforce Development to rescind its proposed independent-contractor rule in its entirety. Read the 26-page public comment here.
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Co-Founder of Fight For Freelancers Testifies before U.S. Senate
Fight For Freelancers co-founder Kim Kavin, a freelance writer and editor from New Jersey, testified before the U.S. Senate HELP Committee at a hearing about the need to protect independent contractors across the United States. It was her third appearance as a witness on Capitol Hill, with two previous appearances in the U.S. House of Representatives. … Read more …
Co-Founder of Fight For Freelancers Testifies Before Congress (Again)
Kim Kavin, a co-founder of the grassroots advocacy coalition Fight For Freelancers, testified before Congress today about the urgent need for lawmakers to protect our fundamental freedom to earn a living in the face of continuing anti-independent contractor policy-making nationwide. Read more …
Why We Just Sued the U.S. Department of Labor
From our op-ed published today by The Hill: “Our goal: to keep our careers as freelance professionals and to protect the right for America’s tens of millions of independent contractors to choose self-employment.” Read more…
Leaders of Fight For Freelancers USA Sue the U.S. Labor Department
The leaders of Fight For Freelancers USA, a nonpartisan, self-funded, ad hoc coalition of solopreneurs, small-business owners, freelancers and other independent contractors, filed a complaint today through Pacific Legal Foundation in federal court against the U.S. Department of Labor, acting secretary Julie Su, and Wage and Hour Division administrator Jessica Looman. Read more…
Fight for Freelancers Co-Founder Testifies Before U.S. Congress on the Right to Self-Employment
Fight For Freelancers co-founder Kim Kavin, a freelance writer and editor from New Jersey, testified at a hearing about the need to protect independent contractors across the United States from proposed restrictions on the choice of self-employment. … Read more …
Fight For Freelancers Co-Founder to Testify Before U.S. Congress
Fight For Freelancers co-founder Kim Kavin, a freelance writer and editor from New Jersey, has been invited to testify before the Workforce Protections Subcommittee at a hearing about the need to protect independent contractors across the United States. … Read more …
Fight For Freelancers USA Opposes Nomination of Julie Su as U.S. Labor Secretary
Fight For Freelancers USA issued this press release today, opposing President Biden’s nomination of Julie Su for secretary of labor. “Julie Su has been instrumental in supporting regulations and laws that have decimated independent contracting for countless people,” says Kim Kavin, a New Jersey freelance writer and co-founder of Fight For Freelancers. “She’s a key figure in a movement seeking to implement policies that could destroy millions of livelihoods nationwide.” … Read more …
Fight For Freelancers USA Public Comment Opposing U.S. Labor Department Rule Change
Today, Fight For Freelancers USA submitted a 20-page public comment in strong opposition to the U.S. Department of Labor’s proposed rule to redefine independent contractors. This rule is written in a way that will misclassify millions of legitimate independent contractors as employees, damaging our incomes and, in some cases, destroying our entire livelihoods.
U.S. Labor Department Proposed Rule Threatens Independent Contractor Health, Financial Stability
The U.S. Labor Department this week announced its proposed rule to redefine who is considered an independent contractor and who is an employee. The proposal has the potential to misclassify millions of legitimate independent contractors in a way that threatens their income and livelihoods, as well as their health. … Read more …
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