Writers, Gig Economy

AB 5 Survives Challenge From Freelance Writers, Photographers

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 11/22/2021

Assembly Bill 5 regulates economic activity and not speech, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently held, affirming dismissal of a suit brought by freelance writers and photographers challenging the...more

AB 2257: Sweeping Changes To AB 5 Independent Contractor Law

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/9/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: Businesses operating in California have had all of eight months to adapt since Assembly Bill 5, a landmark piece of legislation governing their relationships with independent contractors, took effect on...more

California Enacts AB 2257, Providing Much-Needed Clarification and Adding Exemptions to AB 5

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/9/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: Businesses operating in California have had all of eight months to adapt since Assembly Bill 5 (“AB 5”), a landmark piece of legislation governing their relationships with independent contractors, took...more

California Adds More Exemptions to Controversial Independent Contractor Statute

Epstein Becker & Green on 9/8/2020

We have written frequently here about AB5, California’s controversial law that creates an “ABC” test that must be satisfied in order for a worker to be treated as an independent contractor. ...more

California Independent Contractor Legislation Would Reform AB 5's Treatment of Freelance Writers, Musicians, Artists, and Other...

FordHarrison on 9/8/2020

On August 31, 2020, the California Legislature passed Assembly Bill 2257. If signed by Governor Newsom, AB 2257 would exempt several categories of workers from the stringent requirements of the ABC Test under Assembly Bill 5...more

Freelancer Writers Are The Latest Group To Challenge California’s Gig Economy Law – But Will It Do Any Good?

Fisher Phillips on 12/27/2019

The clock is steadily ticking towards midnight on December 31, and once the illuminated cluster of grapes drops from the Temecula Civic Center clock tower (this is actually a thing) and rings in the new year in California,...more

The New Gig in the Mini-Room

Fisher Phillips on 9/6/2018

As anyone who has spent a weekend binging an entire season of Stranger Things or The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel can tell you, society’s consumption of television has shifted dramatically in the last several years. Discovering...more

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