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On January 15, 2025, the Supreme Court handed employers a win by confirming that exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) need only be proven by a “preponderance of the evidence.” In doing so, the Court...more
By now, everyone has heard about the Texas court putting the kibosh on the new salary exempt thresholds. In other exemption classification news, the United States Supreme Court is set to issue an opinion in early 2025...more
The U.S. Supreme Court decided Bissonnette, et al. v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC, et al. on April 12, 2024. In a unanimous decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court held that a transportation worker need...more
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (“FLSA”) created the right to a minimum wage and overtime pay. The FLSA also provides exemptions to overtime pay requirements for certain employees. Under the “bona fide executive”...more
Please join our Employment Group on February 3, 2022 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. PT for a webinar covering significant new employment legislation in California, as well as case law developments and evolving COVID-19...more
A federal district court in Illinois just ruled that a proposed class of gig economy delivery drivers and paid shoppers must individually arbitrate their claims that they were misclassified as independent contractors,...more
As business owners and members of the labor and employment law community know all too well, California’s AB 5 went into effect on January 1 of this year. The law imposed the “ABC test” for determining whether a worker should...more
Q: What are the details of Assembly Bill (AB) 2257 and how does it change the way I utilize independent contractors? ...more
Welcome to #WorkforceWednesday! This week, worker classification and joint employment are in focus, as California amends AB5 and a federal judge rules on joint-employer liability. New AB5 Exemptions in CA (video attached) ...more
The “ABC test” now used in California to make determinations regarding the validity of independent contractor classifications initially was adopted by the California Supreme Court in Dynamex Operations W. v. Superior Court, 4...more
Last Friday, September 4, Governor Newsom signed AB 2257, which includes a slew of modifications to the now-infamous AB5, which went into effect this year and codified the strict ABC independent contractor test, which we have...more
Many independent contractors complained of dire consequences after Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) became effective in California on January 1, 2020. Following intense lobbying and public relations campaigns, independent contractors in...more
After reviewing the 2,203 pieces of proposed legislation introduced in the California legislature by the February 21 deadline, it’s obvious that one issue will dominate debate in the 2020 session: the continued fallout from...more
Construction companies have a unique opportunity to avoid the application of the restrictive new independent contractors' law that took effect this year. This article provides a checklist that will help construction companies...more
• Numerous new California laws going into effect on January 1, 2020, will impact employers and employees. • The most significant laws include a new employee classification law, extension of the statute of limitations for...more
Join Maya Hamouie and Gabriela Pérez on December 5, 2019 for “ABC to AB 5: Changes to Independent Contractor Status in California.” This complimentary 60-minute webinar will explore how the recent Dynamex decision and...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law AB5, codifying a new test for distinguishing employees from independent contractors. While AB5 does not go into effect until January 1, 2020, it will apply retroactively...more
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 5 into law on Sept. 18, 2019, codifying the strict "ABC" test for employee versus independent contractor classification adopted by the California Supreme Court in Dynamex...more
On September 18, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that attempts to settle some of the ambiguity that remained surrounding the California Supreme Court’s decision in Dynamex and its “ABC Test.”...more
Recommendations for employers before new law goes into effect on January 1, 2020 On September 18, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making it risky for employers (regardless of size) to classify...more
The long-awaited legislation that is intended to provide clarification on the use of independent contractors for businesses in California has now been signed into law. Assembly Bill (“AB”) 5 codifies, clarifies, and grants...more
On September 18, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (“AB”) 5, thereby codifying the California Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Lee. This represents the...more
On September 18, 2019, California Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill 5 (AB-5), a landmark piece of legislation that codifies the ABC test and will significantly limit most employers’ use of independent contractors....more
On April 30, 2018, the California courts rocked the State’s labor and employment landscape with the decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles (“Dynamex”). The court’s decision changed the way...more
As we reported previously, in March President Obama directed the U.S. Labor Department to "modernize and streamline" its regulations governing the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(1) executive, administrative,...more