This isn’t some storyline. It’s the reality of life under strangling regulations like California’s job-killing law, AB5, which forces businesses to classify all workers as employees. Well, that doesn’t work for everyone, especially seasonal employees like Santa.
Rather than posing for pictures and giving innocent children some semblance of hope in an otherwise demoralizing year, Santa performers are out of work.
Watch the story of Patrick Turnbull, a retired landscape contractor from California who has worked independently as Santa Claus for the past 20 years. But he’s unable to work as Santa this year because of AB5 and COVID-related regulations.
There’s nothing merry and bright about canceling another thing that brings people such comfort and joy.
