{"id":14959,"date":"2023-12-06T09:25:32","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/?p=14959"},"modified":"2023-12-06T09:28:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:28:44","slug":"new-york-freelance-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/new-york-freelance-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Law Now Protects Freelance Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14962\" src=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3768894.jpg\" alt=\"new york freelance workers\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3768894.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3768894-980x654.jpg 980w, https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/pexels-andrea-piacquadio-3768894-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-hochul-signs-legislation-protect-rights-freelance-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">governor.ny.gov<\/a>: Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed legislation known as the \u201cFreelance Isn\u2019t Free\u201d Act, which provides protections, rights and opportunities for recourse to freelance workers in New York experiencing non-payment for their services.<\/p>\n<p>The law extends protections to freelancers across all of New York State, building upon the New York City Freelance Isn&#8217;t Free Law, by adding oversight and enforcement from the New York State Attorney General\u2019s Office. This law will protect freelancers by establishing a right to a written contract with certain terms, timely and full payment, and protection from retaliation and discrimination for exercising these rights.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s Attorney General can bring actions to obtain remedies, including damages and civil penalties, on behalf of impacted freelance workers. Freelance workers would also have the right to pursue a private lawsuit to protect their rights under the new law.<\/p>\n<p>These expanded rights and protections will apply to covered freelancers being paid at least $800 for their services. The Department of Labor will provide model contracts on its website for freelancers and hiring parties to use with terms that comply with this new law.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natlawreview.com\/article\/new-york-enacts-statewide-freelance-isnt-free-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Law Review<\/a>, the law defines \u201cfreelance\u00a0 worker\u201d as any natural person or organization composed of no more than one natural person, whether or not incorporated or employing a trade name, that is hired or retained as an independent contractor by a hiring party to provide services in exchange for an amount equal to or greater than $800, either by itself or when aggregated with all contracts\u00a0 for\u00a0 services between the same hiring party and freelance worker during the immediately preceding 120 days.\u00a0 \u201cFreelance worker\u201d does <em><strong>not\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201csales representatives,\u201d as defined in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/laws\/LAB\/191-A\">Labor Law \u00a7 191-a<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>practicing attorneys;<\/li>\n<li>licensed medical professionals; or<\/li>\n<li>\u201cconstruction contractors,\u201d as defined in the Freelance Isn\u2019t Free Act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The law defines \u201chiring party\u201d as any person or entity (other than a federal, state, or municipal governmental agency or authority) that retains a freelance worker to provide any service.<\/p>\n<p>The new law takes effect on May 20, 2024 and applies only to contracts entered into on or after that date.<\/p>\n<p>Get more details from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natlawreview.com\/article\/new-york-enacts-statewide-freelance-isnt-free-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Law Review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new law in New York provides protections and rights to freelance workers experiencing non-payment for their services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[79,110,6],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-14959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gtm-biz-blog-isolved","tag-compliance","tag-freelance","tag-new-york-employers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14959"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14966,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14959\/revisions\/14966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14959"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtm.com\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=14959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}