Category: ABC
What You Need to Know About the AB 5 “Business-to-Business” Exemption
From Lexology, Brigham M. Cheney provides an outstanding review of the “business to business” exemption from California’s…
The Dynamex Decision Is Retroactive (For Now)
From JDSupra, Aaron Colby and Laura Heckathorn discuss a recent case in California in which the court…
Could 2020 Be The Year Of The California Copycats? Other States Line Up To Consider Misclassification Statutes
From Mondaq, Richard R. Meneghello discusses the possibility that California’s ABC test will be adopted by other…
AB 5 Update: Joint Employment, Retroactivity, and Implementation Challenges
From Lexology, James A. Paretti, Jr., Bruce J. Sarchet, Michael J. Lotito and Patrick Colin Stokes discuss recent California cases that…
California Governor Says Gig Unions Are On The Way As He Signs ABC Test Into Law
From Mondaq, Richard R. Meneghello reports that Governor Newsom of California intends to allow gig workers to…
California’s AB5: A Bill Adopting the ABC Test for Classifying Workers as Independent Contractors (with exceptions)
Last year, in Dynamex Operations West Inc. v. The Superior Court of Los Angeles County, Charles Lee et…
Ninth Circuit “Cleans House” In Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Decision By Holding ABC Test Applies Retroactively And Opining On Its Effect On Franchisors
From Mondaq, Christopher Wilkinson, Alexandra Stathopoulos and Carolina Garcia discuss a recent case in which the Ninth Circuit Court of…
Northwestern Mutual Passes ‘ABC Test,’ Defeats Suit Claiming Agents Were Misclassified
From the New Jersey Law Journal, P.J. D’Annunzio discusses a case in which the court said that an…
Ninth Circuit Concludes That New California “ABC” Independent Contractor Test Applies Retroactively
From The National Law Review, Michael S. Kun discusses a recent case in which the Ninth Circuit…
New Jersey ABC Test: Third Circuit Decides It Isn’t Preempted by Federal Law
From The National Law Review, Michael D. Thompson discusses the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision that the Federal…
Third Circuit Rules That FAAAA Does Not Preempt New Jersey’s ABC Test for Determining Independent Contractor Status
From JDSupra, Alexander Chemers and Ryan T. Warden report that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Aviation…
California Court Of Appeal Clarifies Application Of The ABC Test For Independent Contractors
From Mondaq, Thalia S. Rofos and William C. Sung discuss the recent case which limited the application of the stringent…
