Topic
Employee Classification
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Tucker Arensberg Blog
Contractor or employee? The Department of Labor gets into the debate of how to classify some workers
Katherine A. Janocsko Contractor or employee? The Department of Labor gets into the debate of how to classify some workers | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (post-gazette.com) The post Contractor or employee? The Department of…
FB Employment Discrimination Blog
Employer Decisions—There’s a New Final Rule In Town Governing Independent Contractor/Employee Classification
Independent contractor or employee? That has long been the question under various federal and state laws. Why such a buzz about this issue? Well, properly classifying workers is critical for…
California Employment Law Update
Employees Compensated Solely By Commission Are Not Paid A “Salary” And Are Non-Exempt
By Tony Oncidi
Semprini v. Wedbush Secs., Inc., 2020 WL 6557549 (Cal. Ct. App. 2020) Joseph Semprini and another employee filed this putative class action against Wedbush for various wage and hour violations…
Milikowsky Tax Law Blog
How to Prepare for an EDD Misclassification Audit
As a business owner the best way to prepare for, or avoid entirely, an audit from the Employment Development Department (EDD), is to make sure that you’re correctly classifying your…
California Workplace Law Blog
California Supreme Court to Hear Oral Arguments on Retroactive Application of Dynamex
On November 3, 2020, while the rest of the country is focused on the 2020 election, the California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising Int’l,…
Wyatt Employment Law Report
DOL Issues Proposed Rule Clarifying Distinction Between Employees and Independent Contractors Under the FLSA
By WyattLLP
Written by: Sean Williamson On September 22, 2020, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a proposed rule that attempts to clarify the distinction between employees covered by the Fair Labor…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
DOL Proposes Its First-Ever Interpretation on Independent Contractor vs. Employee
By: Noah A. Finkel, Camille A. Olson, Louisa J. Johnson, and John R. Skelton For decades, companies have wrestled with whether certain workers must be treated as employees subject to various employment laws and…
Schneiders & Associates Blog
Big News for the Music Industry – More California Jobs will be Exempt from “ABC” Test
Existing law, commonly known as the “ABC” test and codified by AB 5, makes it more difficult for companies to classify workers as independent contractors rather than employees. The hiring entity has…
California Peculiarities Employment Law Blog
AB 2257: Sweeping Changes To AB 5 Independent Contractor Law
By Eric Lloyd, Scott P. Mallery, Kerry Friedrichs
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…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
California Enacts AB 2257, Providing Much-Needed Clarification and Adding Exemptions to AB 5
By: Eric Lloyd, Scott Mallery, and Kerry Friedrichs Seyfarth Synopsis: Businesses operating in California have had all of eight months to adapt since Assembly Bill 5 (“AB 5”), a landmark…