A mysterious proposed ballot initiative that aimed to let companies treat nurses and other healthcare workers as gig workers was withdrawn less than three weeks after it was submitted.
The initiative was filed with the California Attorney General’s office on Jan. 24, and MarketWatch reported on the ballot measure a week later. It was rescinded on Feb. 11, according to a letter of withdrawal filed with the California Secretary of State’s office, which the attorney general’s office provided upon request by MarketWatch.
The group behind the campaign was largely anonymous and quiet throughout, and nobody involved has replied to several attempts to contact them since the withdrawal of the proposed initiative. A spokesman for the campaign told MarketWatch in January that its backers, whom he would not identify, intended the proposal for the November ballot. But it never got to the signature-gathering stage, and no other versions of the initiative appear to have been submitted to the state for this year’s election.
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