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[Webinar] What’s the Deal? - California Employment Law Issues in Business Transactions and Restructurings - May 24th, 9:30 am -...

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CDF Labor Law LLP presents a complimentary webinar that will cover California employment law issues that arise in business transactions and restructurings. Please join CDF employment law attorneys John Giovannone, Erin Owen,...more

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California Bill AB5 Will Rewrite the Rules for Independent Contractors

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On September 10, 2019, the California Senate passed AB5, a sweeping bill to control the use of independent contractors in the nation’s largest state.  With the California Assembly concurring in the Senate’s amendments to the...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

California Assembly Bill Five Excepts Certain Categories Of Workers From Independent Contractor Classification Overhaul

Last week, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill (AB) 5, a new law related to an issue that is critically important to California employers and service providers—whether a worker is classified as an employee or an...more

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California Adopts Strict Independent Contractor Test in New Bill

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On September 11, the California Assembly passed AB 5, a bill that codifies and expands the application of the strict independent contractor test (the “ABC test”) set forth in last year’s decision of the California Supreme...more

Littler

AB 5: The Great California Employment Experiment—A Littler Workplace Policy Institute Report

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Assembly Bill (AB) 5, currently pending in the California legislature, would impose the “ABC” test on California businesses and workers, dramatically altering the legal standards applied in evaluating whether a worker is an...more

Burr & Forman

IRS Misclassifications and Costly Penalties: Independent Contractor or Employee?

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Failing to properly classify an individual as an independent contractor can result in expensive penalties to the employer – imposed by both the United States Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service. As it...more

Stoel Rives - World of Employment

California Legislature Moves to Codify Dynamex

With its decision last year in Dynamex, the California Supreme Court fundamentally changed the test for determining whether workers are properly classified as either employees or independent contractors. Specifically, and as...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Ninth Circuit Expands Reach of Dynamex, Holding ABC Test Retroactive

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In 2018 the California Supreme Court issued its radical Dynamex decision, discussed in our One Minute Memo here. Now the Ninth Circuit has piled on, holding in Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising, International,...more

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Ninth Circuit Applies Dynamex Retroactively

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In 2018, the California Supreme Court adopted the “ABC test” for determining whether workers are independent contractors under California wage orders (the Dynamex decision). For a discussion of that decision....more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

Moonlighting Police Officers Are Employees, Not Independent Contractors, Says Sixth Circuit

In yet another legal development calling into question a traditional independent contractor relationship in the U.S., the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit determined that off-duty police officers were employees of a...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Dynamex Ruling Makes It More Difficult To Classify Employees As Independent Contractors

The California Supreme Court recently issued its long-awaited opinion in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court, clarifying the standard for determining whether workers in California should be classified as employees or...more

Littler

The Implications of Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court: California's Adoption of the ABC Test for Purposes of the Wage...

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The California Supreme Court’s adoption of a strict ABC test for purposes of the wage orders is likely to cause significant problems for California businesses that use independent contractors. Of particular concern is the “B”...more

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Court Of Appeal Limits Applicability Of The ABC Test

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In Dynamex, the California Supreme Court decided to adopt an “ABC” test to determine whether workers are properly classified as independent contractors. This raised a number of questions concerning how (or if) the test should...more

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California Supreme Court Turns Independent Contractor Law On Its Head Making It As Easy As "ABC"

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In Dynamex Operations v. Superior Court, the California Supreme Court made a significant change in independent contractor law, adopting an “ABC” test for determining whether an individual is an employee under the Wage Orders....more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

The Dynamex Fallout: Independent Contractor Classifications Endangered - California Employers Should Heed Recent State Supreme...

In a unanimous ruling, the California Supreme Court in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court rejected the decades-old Borello test for determining whether workers should be classified as employees or independent...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CA Supreme Court Decision Calls for Reevaluation of Worker Classifications

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Businesses with employees in California may need to reevaluate whether their workers are independent contractors or employees in light of a recent decision by the California Supreme Court. ...more

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The 2015 White Paper on Independent Contractor Misclassification: How Companies Can Minimize the Risks

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In This Issue: - Introduction - Independent Contractor Misclassification: How It Has Arisen ..The Economic and Business Advantages of Using Independent Contractors ..Lax Enforcement and...more

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