A newsprint carrier lots up documents to be delivered before dawn. (picture: Shawn Gust/Coeur d’Alene Press via AP)
The state’s newspaper industry won a temporary reprieve in a fight over pay for carriers on the final day of California’s legislative session.
Into the very early hours of Saturday, the Assembly voted 62-4 to deliver AB170 to your governor’s desk. The “carveout” bill offers writers an extension that is one-year conform to a brand new landmark work measure, AB5, that could reclassify numerous employees now considered separate contractors — including paper distribution people — as employees.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, is anticipated to signal both bills into legislation.
Though AB 170 passed, it wasn’t without debate. Into the hours ahead of the floor that is final, Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez issued an psychological plea contrary to the bill. The Democrat from north park informed her peers from the work and Employment Committee that she had been disgusted by the exemption and therefore she wouldn’t normally vote because of it — despite the fact that she authored and introduced the legislation.
“This is an awful bill and I also don’t intend to vote because of it,” she stated as she introduced AB 170 from the Assembly flooring. Making clear that she had been forced to take it up as a condition for the state Senate to approve AB 5 that she was not urging other lawmakers to vote down the carveout, she said. The exemption for magazine writers, she stated, ran counter to her initial intent into the original legislation: to keep employers accountable.
In the long run, AB 170 passed, with wide help both in homes, after lawmakers called in the newsprint industry to make use of the entire year extension sensibly to help make changes that are positive. (AB 5 is always to just just simply take impact in January 2020, providing writers until January 2021 to comply.)
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