As reported in The Wall Street Journal: “The number of unincorporated self-employed workers has risen by 500,000 since the start of the pandemic, Labor Department data show, to 9.44 million. That is the highest total since the financial-crisis year 2008, except for this summer. The total amounts to an increase of 6% in the self-employed.” … Read more…
Press and Releases
Greater Flexibility & Improved Mental Wellbeing Top Drivers Behind Great Resignation Trend According to First Annual GrowTal “The State of Freelancing” Report
As reported by Yahoo! Finance: “Over three in five (62%) agree that freelance was a personal decision, and the government shouldn’t classify them as an employee.” … Read more…
Tech Freelancers Help Companies Plug Talent Gaps
As reported in The Wall Street Journal: “Tech freelancers see a lucrative seller’s market for their skills, said Thomas Vick, a regional director at the technology divisions of staffing firm Robert Half International Inc. “They can actually make more money working on projects as a contractor than what they would as a full-time employee.” … Read more …
Why journalists are leaving their full-time media jobs to go freelance
As reported by Poynter: “I earned more in six months on my own than in the entirety of last year at a full-time job. And I’m on track to more than double my total income this year.” … Read more …
Self-employed people are four times wealthier than workers, on average
As reported by Business Insider: According to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy, self-employed Americans have a far larger median net worth than their regular working peers, and self-employment is one way to achieve economic mobility, especially as wages decline for workers. … Read more …
U.S. Senate HELP Committee Hearing on PRO Act Disappoints
“Yesterday’s hearing by the Senate HELP Committee focused almost entirely on making it easier for current employees to unionize, while failing to recognize how parts of the PRO Act would harm the country’s 59 million independent contractors…” Read more…
Why Entrepreneur Stands Against the PRO Act
As published by Entrepreneur: “According to a former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, the PRO Act would likely make it a violation of federal law merely to continue existing business relationships with some independent contractors, even though 79% of independent contractors say they prefer the current relationships to the types of traditional employer-employee jobs the PRO Act favors.” … Read more …
Creators of Fight For Freelancers USA Honored with Exceptional Service Award
“The American Society of Journalists and Authors presented its Exceptional Service Award—a special honor given only periodically—to Debbie Abrams Kaplan, Kim Kavin, Jen Singer and Karon Warren, co-leaders of the the nonpartisan, grassroots, self-funded, ad hoc coalition Fight For Freelancers USA.” … Read more …
Alaskans don’t want California’s failed policies
As published in the Anchorage Daily News: “When Alaskans learned more about how the PRO Act would drastically alter current federal labor laws and significantly affect who was able to be an independent contractor in Alaska, more than 60% of Alaskans opposed the bill. This was true even among current union members who opposed the PRO Act by 57% after learning about its provisions. What’s more, 85% of Alaskans agreed that it was important they be able to choose to work as independent contractors. More than 80% believe federal laws should continue to protect the rights of Alaskans to work as independent contractors.” … Read more…
Lawmakers risk repeating a disaster with the PRO Act
As published in the Florida Times-Union: “Will history repeat itself, or will Congress learn from the mistakes of California’s experiment and avoid pushing the same bad policies on the tens of millions of Americans who earn a living from independent contracting? Americans must be allowed to work the way they want. We should expand worker freedom, not shrink it. PRO Act advocates don’t see it that way.” … Read more…
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