New York State Legislature Approves Statutory Protections for Independent Contractors

New York State Legislature Approves Statutory Protections for Independent Contractors

Quick summary:

1. Hiring parties are prohibited from threatening, intimidating, disciplining, harassing, denying a work opportunity to, or discriminating against a freelance worker, or taking any other action that penalizes a freelance worker for, or is reasonably likely to deter a freelancer worker from, exercising or attempting to exercise any right guaranteed under the new law, or from obtaining any future work opportunity because the freelance worker has done so.

2. In 2016, New York City enacted the Freelance Isn't Free Act, a local law establishing protections for certain freelance workers providing services for entities located in the City

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