The long-awaited legislation that is intended to provide clarification on the use of independent contractors for businesses in California has now been signed into law. Assembly Bill (“AB”) 5 codifies, ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV)- Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5) may pose a new threat in plans for at-home learning this fall. AB 5 was created to help turn some gig workers, or freelancers turn into employees with benefits ...

AB 5’s elimination of independent contracting as we know it in California will have significant legal consequences for businesses doing business in California. While we believe board directors will ...

California’s landmark labor law, Assembly Bill 5, isn’t going away anytime soon. Despite the passage of Proposition 22, which exempts hundreds of thousands of gig drivers from the act that regulates ...

AB 5 is a hot mess. Mere months after it took effect, the same politicians who forced AB 5 on California’s workforce are adding more exemptions to the law—bringing the total number of exemptions to ...

Katherine A. Roberts (left) and Galit A. Knotz (right) of Sidley Austin. On Sept. 19, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), a sweeping new law that makes it significantly more ...

The chief architect of California’s sweeping new employment classification law said Thursday that her office will push to amend it to roll back restrictions on freelance journalists and photographers.

Last year’s AB 5 (Gonzalez) codified and expanded the reach of the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision. One of the categories of exemptions to the ABC Test set forth in AB 5 is for bona fide ...

A California judge on Friday, March 15, ruled against the trucking industry in its effort to halt the state’s application of the restrictive AB 5 independent contractor law on trucking, ultimately ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The face of employment in California is about to change dramatically. Hundreds of thousands of gig economy workers are about to be reclassified as employees under a new bill, AB ...

With two days to go before a new law makes it harder to treat workers as contractors in California, Uber and Postmates filed a legal challenge alleging it violates individuals’ constitutional rights ...

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