YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions::Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google’s refusal to negotiate with the union.
Those work situations are the worst. It reminds me of the saying “you can be right, or you can get what you want, but not both”.
You can correctly assert your contractor status and correctly point out that you’re not legally allowed to do a thing. You’re in the right, no doubt, but that doesn’t stop an unhappy executive from “letting you go” anyway.