California allows more exemptions from landmark labor law

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

California is exempting about two-dozen more professions from a landmark labor law designed to treat more people like employees instead of contractors, under a bill that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Friday.

The amendments, which take effect immediately, end what lawmakers said were unworkable limits on services provided by freelance writers and still photographers, photojournalists, and freelance editors and newspaper cartoonists. It includes safeguards to make sure they are not replacing current employees.

The new measure also exempts various artists and musicians, along with some involved in the insurance and real estate industries.

Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego, who primarily wrote the original measure, said the new law “strikes a balance and continues to provide protections for workers against misclassification that had previously gone unchecked for decades under the old rules.”

In California some industries get special privileges based on what some politicians take in campaign donations(bribes)...