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AB 5 Update: Newspaper Carriers Secure (Another) One-Year Exception

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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

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Financial Daily Dose 11.15.2019 | Top Story: New Jersey Targets Uber Over “Independent Contractor” Worker Classification

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Sending a shot across the bow of the gig economy, New Jersey is seeking nearly $650 million from Uber for “years of unpaid employment taxes for its drivers, arguing that the ride-hailing company has misclassified the workers...more

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Governor Cuomo Vetoes Bill Creating Independent Contractor Test For Newspaper Carriers

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed several bills into law on Saturday, November 21, 2015. However, one piece of legislation that did not make it past his desk was a measure that would have created a special test under which newspaper...more

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August 2014 Monthly Independent Contractor Compliance and Misclassification Update

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This month’s headline development are the seismic decisions, issued on August 27, 2014 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, concluding as a matter of law that FedEx Ground had misclassified over 2,300 drivers...more

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California Supreme Court Holds Independent Contractor Misclassification Claims Can Be Determined by Common Proof – But Only in...

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In its first employment-related class certification decision since its seminal ruling in Duran v. U.S. Bank, the California Supreme Court, in a fragmented opinion, reversed the denial of class certification for a group of...more

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California Supreme Court Eases Path Toward Class Certification of Independent Contractor Misclassification Claims

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In Ayala v. Antelope Valley Newspapers, Inc., the California Supreme Court set forth the legal standard for determining whether independent contractor misclassification claims can be brought on a classwide basis, or must be...more

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California Supreme Court: Newspaper Carriers Can Proceed With Class Action Challenging Independent Contractor Status

On June 30, 2014, the California Supreme Court issued a decision addressing how trial courts should determine the appropriateness of class certification in cases where workers claim they were improperly classified as...more

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