By COLE LAUTERBACH
THE CENTER SQUARE
(The Center Square) – Copper State small business owners appear to have embraced the local colloquialism “Don’t California my Arizona,” according to results of a new survey.
The Arizona chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business released its annual poll of Main St. entrepreneurs Monday.
NFIB got responses to three questions from 247 small business owners across the state this month.
The first of those questions was about California’s use of the “ABC test” to determine whether an employee is eligible as an independent contractor or a higher-priced full-time worker entitled to benefits and leave.
The legal test asks if the worker “is free from the control and direction of the hiring entity in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of the work and in fact; the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business;” and whether the worker is “customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as that involved in the work performed.”
The test was implemented with the passage of Assembly Bill 5 in California in 2019. It had strong support from the state’s unions but was criticized by businesses and others warning of broad effects on California’s economy. Many industries, including freelance journalists, were excluded from the law in a 2020 change. The Protecting the Right to Organize, or PRO Act,...
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