Summer ‘21: Employment Law
OPINION:
PRO-Act is Pro-Labor and Anti-Gig Economy and Freelancing BY TAMI KAMIN MEYER
If the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, also known as the PRO-Act, currently pending in the U.S. Senate, becomes law, freelancing will be forever altered. The PRO-Act is designed to amend previous labor laws, such as the National Labor Relations Act. Why? Allegedly to assist employees unionize, should they wish, while weakening an employer’s power to prevent that organizing. As a longtime freelance writer and editor, I do not wish to be anyone’s employee. I am a small business owner with a staff of one. I am self-employed and the best boss I’ve ever had. And, if the PRO-Act passes as written, I, along with 57 million other freelancers in the
The PRO-Act includes a three-prong test, known as the ABC Test, designed to differentiate between an employee and an independent contractor. 38 | Columbus Bar L aw yers Quarterly Summer 2021
