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California Personal Injury Law Case Notes
Independent Contractor
An independent contractor is a person who an employer hires to complete a project. The employer does not have control over how the project is completed. In California, a person…
Independent Contractor Misclassification & Compliance
Even an Exotic Dance Club (a.k.a. Strip Joint) Can Comply with Independent Contractor Laws – And Avoid or Defend Against Class Actions
By Richard Reibstein Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C.
A number of our blog posts since October 2010, including our monthly updates beginning in November 2012, have included reports on hundreds of class action lawsuits including those by exotic…
Independent Contractor Misclassification & Compliance
133,000 Misclassified Workers Detected in New York in the Course of 12,000 Audits and Investigations in 2014, According to the State’s Newest Task Force Report on Employee Misclassification
By Richard Reibstein Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C.
On February 1, 2015, the Joint Enforcement Task Force on Employee Misclassification issued its Annual Report. The Report noted that the New York Task Force members in 2014 conducted over…
Independent Contractor Misclassification & Compliance
January 2015 Independent Contractor Compliance and Misclassification Update
By Richard Reibstein Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C.
In the Courts (4 cases) JANITORIAL FRANCHISE COMPANY SETTLES ITS APPEAL OF $4.8 MILLION JUDGMENT IN FAVOR OF MISCLASSIFIED CUSTODIANS. Coverall North America Inc. settled the independent contractor misclassification case…
CAFA Law Blog
PAGA Penalties Divided Among Employees and State of California May Not Be Aggregated To Satisfy CAFA’S Amount-In-Controversy Requirement
Main v. Dolgen California, LLC, 13-01637, 2013 WL 5799019 (E.D. Cal. Oct. 28, 2013). In this case, a California district court remanded a putative class action after finding that plaintiffs’…
California Employment Law Update
Employer Properly Challenged CUIAB’s Determination That Worker Was Not An Independent Contractor
By Tony Oncidi
West Hollywood Cmty. Health & Fitness Ctr. v. CUIAB, 2014 WL 6852700 (Cal. Ct. App. 2014) After leaving his job as a massage therapist at West Hollywood Community Health &…
HR Defense
U.S. Labor Department and Florida Department of Revenue Team Up to Prevent Worker Misclassification
Now more than ever, Florida employers should ensure they are properly classifying their workers. The U.S. Department of Labor and the Florida Department of Revenue have announced an agreement between the two…
Law and the Workplace
Rhode Island Establishes Tip Line For Worker Misclassification
By Carolyn M. Dellatore, Guy Brenner
Rhode Island’s Joint Task Force on the Underground Economy and Employee Misclassification announced earlier this month that it has set up an anonymous telephone tip line for reporting allegations of independent…
Employment Law Business Guide
NH JOINS FORCES WITH US DOL TO REDUCE MISCLASSIFICATION OF WORKERS
The NH Department of Labor and the US Department of Labor entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the purpose of preventing misclassification of workers as independent contractors or…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
New Jersey Supreme Court Set to Rule on Definition of “Independent Contractor”
The New Jersey Supreme Court will soon resolve the issue of who is and is not an independent contractor status under state wage-hour law. I discuss the Sleepy’s case in…