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worker classification
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Gig Employer Blog
Bloomberg Law Reports DOL Misclassification Rule Could Be In Jeopardy
A report by Ben Penn in Thursday’s Bloomberg Law casts serious doubt about whether the Department of Labor will proceed with a misclassification rule before the end of this presidential…
Gig Employer Blog
Uber CEO Calls For Third Worker Classification
In an op-ed appearing in today’s N.Y. Times, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi echoes what we have been saying on this blog for quite some time – that it is time…
Gig Employer Blog
California Judge Hands Stinging Loss To Gig Economy Companies – 5 Takeaways From Ruling Ordering Ride-Sharing Drivers To Be Classified As Employees
A California state court judge just handed a potentially groundbreaking loss to gig economy companies across the state by granting an injunction forcing the two biggest ride-sharing drivers in the…
Tax Withholding & Reporting
Senate Bill Would Ignore COVID-19 Assistance in Determining Worker Classification; Treat Certain Benefits as Qualified Disaster Relief Payments
Is an individual service provider an employee or an independent contractor? As our employee benefits colleagues have noted previously in Covington’s Inside Compensation blog, the IRS test is complicated and…
Employment Law Lookout
GoT’s All-Seeing Three-Eyed Raven: The Gig Economy in California
By Scott P. Mallery Seyfarth Synopsis: The controversy surrounding AB 5 unveiled a clear need for a new avenue of classifying so-called gig workers to combine the certainty of employee…
California Peculiarities Employment Law Blog
GoT’s All-Seeing Three-Eyed Raven: The Gig Economy in California
Seyfarth Synopsis: The controversy surrounding AB 5 unveiled a clear need for a new avenue of classifying so-called gig workers to combine the certainty of employee designations with the flexibility…
Gig Employer Blog
EXCLUSIVE: California Budgets Over $17M To Enforce Misclassification Law
By Benjamin Ebbink, Richard Meneghello
In a budget deal finalized today and expected to be approved by state lawmakers in a matter of days, the California state legislature has reached an agreement that will see…
GT L&E Blog
Timothy Long and Lindsay Hutner to Participate at Bridgeport’s Independent Contractor, Joint Employment Misclassification Litigation 2020 Teleconference
Timothy Long and Lindsay Hutner of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP will participate in the Independent Contractor, Joint Employment Misclassification Litigation Teleconference program on June 30. Hosted by Bridgeport Continuing…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
Federal Court Denies Conditional Certification of Collective Action Involving Restaurant Managers
By Jessica K. Little, Juan C. Enjamio
A federal district court in Florida recently declined to conditionally certify a nationwide collective action brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act because the plaintiff did not show sufficient evidence…
Labor & Employment Law Blog
New Jersey Department of Labor Releases Posters for Employers to Utilize to Satisfy Employee Misclassification Posting Requirements
By James Hays, Jamie Moelis*, Sean Kirby
At the beginning of this year, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a package of legislation aimed at protecting the rights of workers who have been misclassified as independent contractors.…