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Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
ABC Employee Test for App-Based Companies in PA?: More Reaction to Regulatory Arbitrage
A recently-offered Pennsylvania bill doubling-down on the ABC employee-status test for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft has created in me the strong impression that one school of national opinion…
Hiring To Firing Law Blog
Slate of N.J. Laws Require Severance Pay in Mass Layoffs and Increased Penalties for Worker Misclassification
Q. Are there new laws that New Jersey employers needs to be aware of? A. January 2020 was a busy month for New Jersey’s executive branch. Governor Phil Murphy signed…
Employment Law Watch
New Jersey enacts major changes on the independent contractor front
By John T. McDonald, Saranne Weimer
The start of 2020 has already proven to be a busy year for employers in New Jersey. In addition to becoming the first state in the nation to mandate severance…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
New Jersey Resumes Efforts to Amend ABC Test for Independent Contractor Status, Passes Slate of Laws Targeting Misclassification
By LexBlog
The State of New Jersey kicked off this year the same way it closed out the last—with an assault on New Jersey businesses. After a year of unprecedented change—one which…
GT L&E Blog
AB 5 Update: The California Supreme Court Will Likely Decide if Dynamex Is Retro in 2020
By Yoon-Woo Nam, Charles O. Thompson
On Jan. 15, 2020, the California Supreme Court granted, and then deferred further action on, the appeal of a lower appellate court’s opinion in Gonzales v. San Gabriel Transit, Inc.…
Who Is My Employee?
Voters Would Reject This Flight Option, But They Could Change Independent Contractor Law in California This November
A few years back, I found myself headed to the Houston airport earlier than expected after a business trip. I decided to check my phone to see whether I could…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
ERISA Preemption Progeny Strike Again: Lower Federal Court Strikes AB-5 As Applied to Truck Drivers
The California Trucking Association has temporarily carved out an exception to applying the ABC test to truck drivers in California, who will continue to be stripped of important rights regardless…
The Right Coast
Uber and Postmates Important AB-5 Lawsuit Faces an Uphill Battle | Mercatus Center
January 1 did not just ring in a new year and a new decade, it also heralded the start of California s new worker classification law: Assembly Bill 5 (AB-5).…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
All the World’s a Platform?: Some Remarks on “Marketplace Platform” Employment Laws — an Anti ABC/Dynamex/AB 5 Ethic
I've written a short paper in advance of the 2020 Workers' Compensation Midwinter Conference panel in which I'll be participating on March 28 in New Orleans. The panel is titled,…
Gig Employer Blog
California Truckers Get Biggest Misclassification Win Yet; Gig Economy Companies Await Their Fate
California Truckers Get Biggest Misclassification Win Yet; Gig Economy Companies Await Their Fate The federal court that had granted a temporary restraining order on New Year’s Eve blocking California’s misclassification…