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Gig Employer 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…
Independent Contractor Misclassification & Compliance
October 2019 Independent Contractor Misclassification and Compliance News Update
By Richard Reibstein Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C.
Last month saw large settlements and yet another new lawsuit against companies that have an independent contractor business model, but also success by such companies in obtaining a favorable jury…
California Employment Law Update
Determination Of Class Certification Motion Should Be Based On Dynamex’s “ABC Test”
By Tony Oncidi
Gonzales v. San Gabriel Transit, Inc., 2019 WL 4942213 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019) Francisco Gonzales filed this putative class action against his former employer, San Gabriel Transit ("SGT"), alleging that…
Gig Employer Blog
As Congress Ponders the “Future of Work,” it Faces Divergent Interests Within the Gig Economy
As Congress Ponders the “Future of Work,” it Faces Divergent Interests Within the Gig Economy As we reported just a few weeks ago, Congress has begun to gather information and…
Close-Ups
AB5 Post-Mortem – “Same as It Ever Was”
This article is part of a series monitoring developments with regard to California Assembly Bill 5 and its impact on the entertainment industry. See our first post here. The Talking…
Who Is My Employee?
Proposed Law Would Radically Change App Driver Protections and Legal Status; Might Also Stop Zombie Ant Apocalypse (Maybe).
You’re supposed to learn something new every day, right? Here’s something that’s definitely new, unless you are a fungus aficionado — and, lucky reader, because this is a read-only post,…
Gig Employer Blog
Could 2020 Be The Year Of The California Copycats? Other States Line Up To Consider Misclassification Statutes
Could 2020 Be The Year Of The California Copycats? Other States Line Up To Consider Misclassification Statutes Gig economy businesses across the country looked to what happened in California this…
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NJ Department of Labor Adopts Regulations on Suspension and Revocation of Employer Licenses
Continuing New Jersey’s efforts to eliminate and to hold employers accountable for employee misclassification, the state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) recently adopted Regulations implementing a 2010 law…
All in a Day's Work: The Employer's Legal Guide
It’s Not Just California with an Employee-Friendly Worker Misclassification Test: Massachusetts was an Early Adopter
By Jody Newman, David Mitchell, Michelle Roberts Gonzales
The legal community paid close attention to the California Supreme Court’s 2018 Dynamex decision which adopted a strict test to curtail misclassification of workers as independent contractors. Now that the…
Employment Class Action Blog
California Court of Appeal Applies Dynamex Retroactively
This week, a California Court of Appeal concluded in a class action case that the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision applies retroactively. In another case, Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising International,…