{"id":1319,"date":"2024-02-01T10:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eth.lnc.mybluehost.me\/eng\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2024-02-01T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:56:54","slug":"new-york-state-enacts-independent-contractor-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2024\/02\/01\/new-york-state-enacts-independent-contractor-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Enacts Independent Contractor Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Independent-Contractor-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1835\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Independent-Contractor-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Independent-Contractor-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Independent-Contractor-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On May 20, 2024,\u00a0New York State\u2019s Freelance Isn\u2019t Free Act goes into effect, which\u00a0imposes contract, payment, recordkeeping, and anti-discrimination requirements on companies that hire independent contractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While New York City has had a similar law in effect since 2017 (NYC\u2019s Freelance Isn&#8217;t Free Act), New York State\u2019s version is broader in scope and aims to protect freelance workers outside the City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Littler:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/publication-press\/publication\/new-york-enacts-sweeping-changes-independent-contractor-arrangements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Enacts Sweeping Changes to Independent Contractor Arrangements<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 20, 2024,\u00a0New York State\u2019s Freelance Isn\u2019t Free Act goes into effect, which\u00a0imposes contract, payment, recordkeeping, and anti-discrimination requirements on companies that hire independent contractors. While New York City has had a similar law in effect since 2017 (NYC\u2019s Freelance Isn&#8217;t Free Act), New York State\u2019s version is broader in scope and aims to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}