Category: California

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$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…

Posted in California Workers Compensation

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…

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Posted in ABC California

Ninth Circuit Rejects Another AB 5 Challenge

From JDSupra, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP discusses a recent case in which the court said that…

Posted in California

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…

Posted in ABC California

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…

Posted in California

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…

Posted in ABC California

Exemption from AB5 for Commercial Fishers Extended

From JDSupra, Amy Beverlin, Matthew Kane, and Sylvia Kim report on new laws in California including one…

Posted in California

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…

Posted in ABC California

Janitorial Workers Were Employees, Not Independent Contractors

From JDSupra, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP discuss a recent case in which the court said that…

Posted in Arbitration California

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…

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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…

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Posted in ABC California

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,…