Biden's union-label Labor secretary pick must be stopped. Look what she did to California
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Julie Su left a trail of economic destruction in her wake as she rose through the ranks of California’s labor department, and is poised to hurt the entire country as Labor secretary.
Mark Mix is president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.
As secretary of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, Su was notorious for cracking down on independent contractors through her aggressive enforcement of Assembly Bill 5. AB5 subjects workers to a stringent "ABC test" to determine their employment status, such that many independent contractors were forcibly reclassified as full employees.
Most independent contractors say they do not want to become employees, and value the flexibility independent contracting affords. In the wake of AB5’s passage, more than one million freelancers lost work. To quell public outrage, the California legislature carved out scores of professions from the draconian legislation so that it no longer applied to musicians, translators, writers, photographers and many others.