Self-employed workers in Kansas still have to wait for unemployment assistance

For readers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, please see the WBJ's Small Resource Business Guide. Thousands of independent contractors in Kansas considered nonessential under a state-mandated stay-at-home order have now gone weeks without pay. Contracted employees left jobless during Covid-19, many of them hairstylists, farm workers and other 1099 "gig workers," are not eligible for traditional unemployment benefits from the Kansas Department of Labor, says a department spokesperson. There is…