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San Francisco Employment Law Firm Blog
California Broadens The “Employee” Definition in Employee / Independent Contractor Distinction
By Arkady Itkin
On April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court issued its unanimous ruling in Dynamex Operations West, Inc., v Superior Court, making it even harder for companies to classify workers as independent…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Dynamex Checks a Gig Line: California Supremes Respond to Intensifying Employee Misclassification
There are two things that workers’ compensation professionals should know right off the bat about the California Supreme Court’s magisterial opinion in Dynamex Operations West v. Lee. First, although the…
Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives
California Supreme Court Adopts New Independent Contractor Test
By Matthew I. Bobb, Emily Burkhardt Vicente
The California Supreme Court has adopted a new three-part test to determine whether a worker is an independent contractor or an employee under California’s wage orders, which regulate wages, hours,…
California Employment Law
CA Supreme Court Turns Independent Contractor Analysis on its Head
Determining whether a California worker is an independent contractor or an employee has always been difficult. Judges deciding the issue have complained that the test used by California courts “provides…
California Employment Law Update
California Abandons 30-Year-Old Test For Determining Independent-Contractor Status, Broadens Definition Of “Employee”
On April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court issued its unanimous ruling in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court, making it even harder for companies to classify workers as…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
The Colorado Gig Bill – An Idea in Partial Retreat?
I have been reading some very good pieces of late on Gig deregulatory laws authored by Judge David Langham, here, Brandeis Dean David Weil, here, and, and author and policy…
Employment Law Business Guide
Gig-Economy Driver for Grubhub Found An Independent Contractor
[caption id="attachment_2778" align="alignright" width="320"] Photo: Geoff Peters via Flickr (CC by 2.0)[/caption] In what some believe the first federal trial over the classification of this new 21st Century worker, a…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
Computer Exemption Case Settles: Discretion Is The Better Part of Valor
Exemption class actions, i.e. lawsuits alleging misclassification, continue to pop up in different contexts and concerning different classifications. A bank has just agreed to settle a case by paying more…
Independent Contractor Misclassification & Compliance
March 2018 Independent Contractor Misclassification and Compliance News Update
By Richard Reibstein Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C.
Last month, half of the cases that came to our attention in the area of independent contractor misclassification and compliance involved interesting issues concerning arbitration – and lessons for companies…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Oh Thank Heaven, Franchisees Not Employees of 7-Eleven!
By Kevin Young
Co-authored by Christopher Truxler and Coby Turner Seyfarth Synopsis: Earlier this month, a California federal court dismissed the misclassification claims of 7-Eleven franchisees on the pleadings, finding they did not…