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Ogletree Deakins Insights
The ABC Test May Soon Be Law in California: What Employers Need to Know
By LexBlog
On September 11, 2019, the California Assembly passed a bill codifying last year’s Supreme Court of California decision establishing a new test to determine whether a worker is an independent…
New Jersey Law Blog
California Assembly Bill 5 and the (Non-)Impact on the Financial Services Industry
California Assembly Bill 5 (the “Bill”) was passed in Senate on September 9, 2019 after passing the Assembly back in May. According to reporting by the New York Times, it…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
NJ Employer Wins Independent Contractor Case, Beats ABC Test
The New Jersey independent contractor test is one of the toughest for a putative employer to prevail upon. So, when an employer does do that, it is a great day…
Employer Law Report
Misclassifying employees as “independent contractors” does not violate NLRA
The decision to classify a worker as an independent contractor, rather than as an employee, carries significant legal implications. Misclassifying employees as independent contractors can result in employer liability for…
California Workplace Law Blog
AB 5 Returned to the CA Senate
The California worker classification bill, Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), advanced closer to passage just prior to the Labor Day weekend. Please recall, AB 5, which is Assembly member Lorena…
Massachusetts Labor & Employment Law
NLRB Rules Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors Does Not Violate NLRA
Last week, in Velox Express, Inc., the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) answered what had been a long-standing open question under federal labor law, ruling that the misclassification of employees as…
Labor Relations Update
National Labor Relations Board: Labor Day Roundup
By Mark Theodore, Joshua Fox, Jacob P. Tucker
While much of the country spent the last week of summer enjoying the last few days of sun, the National Labor Relations Board spent the week before its eponymous three-day…
Gig Employer Blog
One Fewer Headache: NLRB Holds That Misclassification Won’t Lead To Labor Law Violations
One Fewer Headache: NLRB Holds That Misclassification Won’t Lead To Labor Law Violations Chalk up in the win column for businesses. Yesterday the National Labor Relations Board ruled that companies…
Who Is My Employee?
Why Don’t Companies Offer Healthcare Benefits to Independent Contractors?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/tayloraowens/funny-things-from-this-week-august-16 I found this on buzzfeed, while doing academic research for this blog post. In the business world, it’s not quite as funny when good intentions are misunderstood. Which…
Compensation & Benefits Blog
[Podcast]: Worker Classification after Dynamex, Not as Simple as ABC
By Kate Napalkova, Pietro Deserio
In its 2018 decision in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, the California Supreme Court upended decades of precedent by setting out a new, stringent, three-factor…