By eliminating government-created barriers to opportunity, state and federal lawmakers can make it easier for those who are suddenly unemployed to earn a living from home or start a new home-based business. 

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As the coronavirus was becoming a global fear, the Society for Human Resource Management was suggesting that companies encourage employees to avoid public transportation whenever possible and instead “walk, cycle, drive a car” as a means to control infectious disease. Compared to mass transit, app-based travel is even a healthier choice. A doctor told the New York Times ridesharing is “likely low risk.”

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The problems caused by AB 5 have grown exponentially now that the kind of work performed by many independent contractors – such as the work of sign language interpreters, online tutors, those who provide health care services, those who deliver groceries or meals, and many others – is even more important amidst the coronavirus.

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This podcast is a recorded lecture from PRI’s second annual policy conference in Sacramento. The speaker is Judge Daniel Kolkey, a partner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He served as an Associate Justice on the California Court of Appeals and Legal Affairs Secretary for Governor Pete Wilson. California is approaching warmer weather – that means fire season. Judge Kolkey believes that the governor can help mitigate future power outages and wildfires through his executive powers. In this lecture, he makes his case.

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Reusable bags are enough of a threat that some grocers, in California and elsewhere, are not allowing their employees place items directly into them. Customers who bring reusable bags into the store have to sack up their own purchases.

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