As a Lawyer for Freelancers, I Find California’s New Gig Worker Law (AB 5) Maddening

Rube Goldberg’s Professor Butts and the Self-Operating Napkin (1931) [Public Domain]

Ever heard of a Rube Goldberg machine? It’s a concept meaning an unnecessarily complicated system. And wow, is the new legal framework for determining who is a freelancer in California unnecessarily complicated!

For starters, you need to use one of 2 different tests to determine whether you are an “independent contractor”…