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…
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…
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…
First, But Certainly Not the Last: California Agricultural Labor Relations Board Issues First-Ever Additional Penalties to Employer for Willful Misclassification
From JDSupra, Heather Domingo and Rebecca Hause-Schultz discuss the first time the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board…
Trucker Protest Over California Independent Contractor Law Shuts Down Port of Oakland
From JDSupra, Linda Auerbach Allderdice, Kristine Orozco-Little, and Jameson Rice provide an outstanding summary of the history,…