Category: ABC
NJ Continues Its Aggressive Crackdown on Independent Contractor Misclassification
From JDSupra, Daniel Small, Glenn Smith, Robert Szyba, and Howard Wexler discuss the legislation recently enacted in…
Ride-Sharing Industry Prevails, While Trucking Industry has More Legal Work to do:
From JDSupra, Richard Reibstein discusses two cases this month — in one of them, Lyft drivers were required…
Louisiana House committee approves misclassification measures
From KTBS 3 ABC, David Jacobs reports that a Louisiana House committee supported a bill to clarify…
Schrödinger’s Cat? Ninth Circuit Disrupts Trucking Industry with Contractor Misclassification Ruling
From JDSupra, Todd Lebowitz discusses the recent decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that the…
Surprise! Federal Proposal Would Require States to Adopt California’s ABC Contractor Classification Test for Unemployment Purposes
From JDSupra, Benjamin Ebbink, Usama Kahf and John Polso discuss a bill that focuses on improving the…
California’s Preemption Analysis Creates Circuit Split Making AB-5 Ripe for Supreme Court Review
From JDSupra, Penny Chen, Carter Norfleet, and Saman Rejali review the recent decision by the 9th Circuit…
9th Circuit Permits Enforcement Of AB 5 Against Interstate Motor Carriers
From JDSupra, Cary Palmer discusses the recent decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that said that…
Ninth Circuit Joins California Court of Appeal in Rejecting FAAAA Preemption of AB 5 as Applied to Motor Carriers
From JDSupra, Amy Patton and Tyler Runge discuss the decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals…
9th Circuit says AB5 is Not Preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (FAAAA)
In CTA V. Rob Bonta, No. 20-55107, D.C. No.3:18-cv-02458- BEN-BLM, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed…
Independent Contractors Denied Class Action Status Under the Dynamex ABC Test
From JDSupra, Alison Tsao discusses a California Court of Appeal’s case in which the court did not…
The PRO Act Does not Need a Fix to Protect Freelancers like Me, but the Worker Flexibility Act Might
From Daily Kos, CanAmLefty argues that the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (the “PRO Act”) only…
PRO Act And ABC Test: No One Knows What The Effects Will Be
From Forbes, Erik Sherman provides an outstanding discussion of the possible effects of the Protecting the Right to…
