Category: California
$6.5 million wage settlement OK’d for exotic dancers in California
From Courthouse News Service, Alanna Madden reports on a proposed settlement of misclassification claims by exotic dancers…
Hirer Of Independent Contractor Is Not Liable For Injury To Contractor’s Employee
From Lexology, Tony Oncidi reports on a case in California in which the company that hired an…
LGCY Power Misclassified Door-to-Door Salespeople as Independent Contractors
Top Class Actions reports that LGCY settled claims that it misclassified workers, including door-to-door salespeople, as independent…
Ninth Circuit Rejects Another AB 5 Challenge
From JDSupra, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP discusses a recent case in which the court said that…
Is It Becoming Easy To Certify Collective Action Lawsuits Alleging Independent Contractor Misclassification?
From JDSupra, Richard Reibstein discusses a recent case in which a federal court in California certified a…
Attorney General Becerra and City Attorneys of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco Sue Uber and Lyft Alleging Worker Misclassification
San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott announced that California Attorney General Becerra and the City Attorneys of…
Ninth Circuit Holds California’s ABC Test for Classifying Independent Contractors Does Not Violate First Amendment
From JDSupra, Eric Gitig and Obiora Ikedi Onyemaobim discuss a recent case in which the court rejected…
San Diego City Attorney Announced that Instacart Agreed to pay $46.5 million to Settle Claims Alleging Workers were Misclassified as Independent Contractors
San Diego City Attorney Mara W. Elliott announced that Instacart agreed to pay $46.5 million to settle…
Exemption from AB5 for Commercial Fishers Extended
From JDSupra, Amy Beverlin, Matthew Kane, and Sylvia Kim report on new laws in California including one…
California Labor Commissioner’s Office Cites Home Health Care Placement Agencies Nearly $2 Million for Misclassifying 66 Workers
The California Labor Commissioner’s Office required two home healthcare placement agencies $1.8 million for misclassifying workers as…
Janitorial Workers Were Employees, Not Independent Contractors
From JDSupra, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP discuss a recent case in which the court said that…
Employment Arbitration Agreements Remain Legal in California – at Least for Now!
From JDSupra, Anthony Oncidi, Wesley Shelton, and Mark Theodore report that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals…
