Let’s take them in turn.
It’s hard to come to terms with the fatuous sanctimony of Romney’s argument. To begin with, the pandemic unemployment program suffered from the same problems nationwide, with a total of as much as $163 billion paid out improperly,If Romney and his colleagues wish to look for the root cause of those improprieties, they need to look in the mirror. They occurred at least partially because Congress effectively waived certification guidelines for the emergency benefits.
“Every state had issues,” Murphy said. But as California is the most populous state in the union, its raw number was destined to be the biggest. Employers have multiple paths to getting their concerns heard by government agencies and members of Congress. Does anyone ever argue that the Department of Commerce is “biased” in favor of employees?
“Miss Su was the chief enforcer of AB 5,” said Sen. Bill Cassidy , reading from a page that might as well have been provided by Uber and Lyft, the chief opponents of AB 5. Cassidy called AB 5 a “controversial law that dismantled the gig economy such as Uber, Doordash, Lyft, and removed the flexibility of these individuals to work as independent contractors.”
Su acknowledged that franchising can provide many aspiring entrepreneurs with an entry into business ownership; she could hardly do otherwise, since her own parents owned a franchised pizza restaurant.