Opinion Advocates for ideas and draws conclusions based on the author/producer’s interpretation of facts and data. New federal legislation makes the same mistake a California law did, which cost thousands of jobs. Why you can trust us By < 1 MIN READEDITOR’S NOTE: After publication, it came to YES! Media’s attention that this op-ed, concerning the PRO Act as it was introduced in Congress, contained an error concerning the scope and impact of the bill that undermined the main premise of the article. The PRO Act’s ABC test would amend the National Labor Relations Act only—which only concerns union representation, not overall labor law—and therefore would not have the same deleterious effect on contractor employment as California’s AB5 bill, which includes a similar provision.