Wisconsin AFL-CIO: Gig Worker Carve-Out Bill: Say NO to the Four-Point Test
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Gig Worker Carve-Out Bill: Say NO to the Four-Point Test
Wisconsin AFL-CIO
May 23, 2025, 2:42 PM (2 days ago)
This week, Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Stephanie Bloomingdale testified at the Capitol before the Senate Committee on Utilities and Tourism. President Bloomingdale spoke out against Senate Bill 256, a bill that would carve-out gig drivers from protections in Wisconsin Labor Law.
Senate Bill 256 and Assembly Bill 269 would permanently remove essential worker protections for all workers who drive for app-based corporations like Uber, DoorDash, and InstaCart, by creating a four-point test to forever end their rights to unemployment insurance, minimum wage, worker’s compensation, and more.
Click here to send a message to your state senator and representative urging them to oppose Senate Bill 256 & Assembly Bill 269.
https://act.aflcio.org/letters/vote-no-on-senate-bill-256?source=direct_link&&link_id=0&can_id=9cf99c7de98c34cdc8ea7fb05371e5dc&email_referrer=email_2748510&email_subject=gig-worker-carve-out-bill-say-no-to-the-four-point-test&
The emergence of the gig economy has created a situation that many employers have exploited to misclassify workers as independent contractors, in an attempt to deprive workers of important rights to which we as employees are entitled, including worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance, minimum wage, and overtime pay. Our labor rights and employment protections are the product of many years of struggle by the labor movement and must not be stripped away simply because the modalities of doing business have changed.
All work has dignity. Gig workers, whether transporting people, food, or products, are a part of our new economy. Many drivers put a high-value on the flexibility that these jobs provide. This bill does not increase or decrease the flexibility of this work.
With this bill, multi-national, app-based corporations are actively trying to permanently evade providing essential employment protections like worker’s compensation and unemployment insurance, by creating a four-point test to be applied to app-based gig drivers whose labor have created vast sums of wealth for investors and owners of these tech giants.
Please contact your Legislator and ask that they oppose Senate Bill 256 and Assembly Bill 269, the Gig Worker Carve-Out Bill and say NO to the 4-point test.
Employment rights guaranteed in Wisconsin’s Worker’s Compensation Act, Unemployment Insurance law, and Minimum Wage Law, in addition to the Wisconsin Fair Employment Act and Employment Regulations law that includes the right to overtime, must not be permanently taken away from app-based drivers through this bill’s four-point test that is intended to forever prohibit these employment rights being granted to app-based drivers.
Denying our labor rights - whether by politicians or bosses - undermines Wisconsin’s proud history as a leader in employment law and turns back the clock to a darker era for working people. Legislators can be reached here.
https://act.aflcio.org/letters/vote-no-on-senate-bill-256?source=direct_link&&link_id=2&can_id=9cf99c7de98c34cdc8ea7fb05371e5dc&email_referrer=email_2748510&email_subject=gig-worker-carve-out-bill-say-no-to-the-four-point-test&
In Solidarity,
Wisconsin AFL-CIO