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Wage and Hour Defense Blog
Judge Denies TRO to Freelance Journalists and Photographers Seeking Relief From California’s Controversial Independent Contractor Statute
As we wrote here recently, organizations representing freelance journalists and photographers filed suit seeking to enjoin enforcement of California’s controversial independent contractor statute, AB 5, as to them. While they…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Another FLSA Misclassification Case in the Energy Industry: A Continuing (and Troubling) Phenomenon
There have been a host of wage hour cases in the energy industry and I have often commented upon these. Many concern misclassification issues and another example of this phenomenon…
Gig Employer Blog
Last-Minute Court Ruling Sees Truckers Spared From California Misclassification Law
Last-Minute Court Ruling Sees Truckers Spared From California Misclassification Law A federal judge took a pause from his New Year’s Eve revelries to hand a big victory to California truckers,…
Gig Employer Blog
Gig Economy Giants Try To Block California’s New Misclassification Law
The truck drivers were the first group to take aim at AB5 through a lawsuit, and the freelancers followed suit. Soon before the clock strikes midnight to ring in the…
Global Workplace Insider
Crowd workers do not qualify as employees
As the end of the year approaches, the German courts have published a decision providing employers with further clarity on the issue of crowd working. What is crowd working? Crowd…
California Employment Law Update
Adjusting To The “New Normal” With AB 5 – A World Without Independent Contractors
By Tony Oncidi, Kristina L. Sidrak
On January 1, 2020, California’s new worker classification law known as Assembly Bill 5 (“AB 5”), goes into effect. AB 5 codifies the three-factor “ABC” test adopted by the California…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Another Assistant Manager FLSA Class Action Goes Down—When Will They Ever Learn?
I love Assistant Manager class actions because it gives a defense lawyer a “golden” opportunity to defeat class certification by asserting that too much individual scrutiny is required to allow…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Gig Economy Article by Keith Cunningham-Parmeter (Williamette Law School) is One-stop Shopping to Understand the Misclassification Debate Surrounding Platform-based Gig Workers
In a new article, the author argues that the traditional common law right of control test is inappropriate, and unworkable, for analyses of whether workers in the platform-based…
Internet Newsletter for Lawyers
California passes landmark gig economy rights bill
The rise of the gig economy and zero hours contracts – often facilitated by the internet and apps such as Uber, Deliveroo and Limber – has been the subject of…
Workplace Safety and Health Law Blog
FP Attorney’s Gig Economy Article Headlines Hawaii Bar Journal
Nov. 19, 2019 by Editor Scott Prange, an attorney in our Seattle office, recently wrote the feature story in the November 2019 edition of the Hawaii Bar Journal entitled, “The…