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Employment Law Business Guide
New Year and New Opportunity to Avoid Top Labor Law Violations! Part 2
By Beth Deragon
This is part 2 of a 2 part series. To read part 1, click here. Now that you have read the top 5 NH Labor Law Violations, keep reading –…
Canadian Labour and Employment Law
Bill 148: Key Changes & What to Do About Them
By William Watson, Susan MacMillan
Ontario employers face a number of new challenges in 2018 as a result of the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017 ("Bill 148"). To help employers navigate the many changes…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Portable Benefits: Carrying Less to a Vanishing Point?
The problem with the idea of portable benefits – employee benefits (including workers’ compensation) provided across employers to putatively, radically different workers in the “gig” economy – is pretty simple.…
Global Workplace Insider
Some Bill 148 reforms to the Ontario ESA are already in effect.
Here’s what you need to know. On November 27th The Ontario Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act 2017 (Bill 148) received Royal Assent and passed into law. This is hardly likely…
HR Law Talk
California Employers Should Remain Cautious when Classifying their Workforce, Notwithstanding More Lenient Federal Policies
Although the Trump administration rescinded its guidance on worker misclassification earlier this year and appears to have otherwise taken a "softer approach" to misclassification enforcement, California employers should remain diligent…
Employment Law Worldview
Working from home not enough to support independent contractor relationship
The scrutiny by the Australian Courts of independent contractor relationships continues with the recent case of Putland -v- Royans Wagga Pty Limited. The Federal Court found in August this year…
SC Employers’ Blog
Court Finds General Contractor Liable for Subcontractor’s Employees
In a decision with potentially huge ramifications for the construction industry, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals found that employees of a framing and drywall subcontractor were also the employees…
California Employment Law Update
Taxicab Driver May Have Been An Employee Rather Than An Independent Contractor
By Tony Oncidi
Linton v. DeSoto Cab Co., 15 Cal. App. 5th 1208 (2017) DeSoto Cab Co. had required Darnice Linton to pay a "gate fee" in exchange for his obtaining a taxicab…
Illinois Workers Compensation Law Blog
Are You An Independent Contractor Or Employee?
By Mike Helfand
I've written on this blog a few times that one of the ways an employer, usually a trucking company but not always, tries to screw you out of Illinois workers'…
Independent Contractor Misclassification & Compliance
Lawyers in GrubHub Gig Economy Trial Make Final Arguments in Independent Contractor Misclassification Case, But Decision Is Unlikely To Be As Momentous As Many Predict
By Richard Reibstein Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C.
The lawyers for GrubHub and the driver who is among thousands who sued the company for independent contractor misclassification made their closing arguments earlier today before federal Magistrate Judge Jacqueline…