Posts tagged portable benefits

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    ‘We Are Hopeful’ Q&A with Patrice Onwuka and Kim Kavin

    January 24, 2025 // Congress should consider enshrining the Trump-era definition for independent contractors, and/or consider ways to get ahead of the opposition to flexible work. The Employee Rights Act was a federal bill that, among many pro-worker provisions, sought to protect independent contractors as a counter to a national ABC Test in the now-defunct Protecting the Right to Organize Act. Portable benefits also provide a pathway for companies to provide independent contractors with workplace benefits without triggering a reclassification.

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    Independent Contracting in 2025

    January 8, 2025 // Independent contractors forgo workplace benefits that employees receive. Portable benefits are a way to give them access to benefits untethered from employment with one employer.

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    A Fresh Look at the Independent Workforce with New BLS Data

    November 27, 2024 // New BLS data reveal the size and growth of the independent workforce, preferences for independent work over W-2 employment, and key demographic and industry trends

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    My Congressional Testimony: Flexible Benefits for a Flexible Workforce

    April 17, 2024 // My testimony today focuses on legalizing independent contractors’ access to fringe benefits. My three key points are: 1. Independent contractors lives would be enhanced if they had access to benefits. 2. States are experimenting with various portable benefits models so that workers care not forced to choose between structured employment with benefits or flexible work without benefits. 3. Federal policy can provide a safe harbor for state and local experimentation with these portable benefits systems.

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    House Subcommittee Discusses Expanding ‘Portable Benefits’ for Gig Workers

    April 15, 2024 // However, Kiley said the government should not force workers to be employees if they don’t want to be. Kiley said he was in favor of a safe harbor and would take other steps to seek out bipartisan support to help provide the growing number of gig workers with portable benefits.

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