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Activist Judges Are the Latest Threat to California Businesses

October 12, 2021 1:56 pmOctober 12, 2021 2:56 pm

An activist judge with a questionable track record has made a head-scratching decision to overturn the votes of millions of Californians. Alameda County Judge Frank Roesch recently ruled in favor of a union-backed lawsuit aimed at dismantling Proposition 22 —...

AB 1561 Makes Important Changes to California’s ABC Test for Independent Contractors

September 30, 2021 7:28 pmSeptember 30, 2021 8:02 pm

On September 30, 2021, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 1561 (Labor and Employment Committee), which amends four provisions of AB 2257 (Gonzalez, 2020 Session), which is California’s law on the proper classification of independent contractors and the...

Applying Dynamex Retroactively Is Fundamentally Unfair

September 22, 2021 4:05 pmSeptember 22, 2021 5:07 pm

With this week’s federal appellate court decision, we can clearly see the fundamental unfairness of the retroactive application of the California Supreme Court’s Dynamex decision on classifying workers as employees or independent contractors. On Monday, September 20, the U.S. Court...

Bill To Regulate Warehouse Worker Productivity Quotas Passes Senate 26-11

September 9, 2021 11:15 am

A bill that would regulate productivity quotas in delivery warehouses, as well as publicly disclose what those quotas are, was passed in the state Senate on Wednesday by a vote of 26-11. Assembly Bill 701, authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez...

Analysis of the Lower Court Ruling on Prop. 22

August 21, 2021 6:05 pmAugust 23, 2021 11:35 am

Proposition 22 passed by voters in the November 3, 2020 General Election election, granted app-based transportation and delivery companies an exception to Assembly Bill 5 by classifying their drivers as “independent contractors” rather than “employees.” On August 20, an Alameda...

Truckers Petition U.S. Supreme Court To Reverse Appellate Court Decision, Remain Exempt From AB 5 Law

August 10, 2021 11:10 amAugust 12, 2021 2:20 pm

The California Trucking Association (CTA) announced Monday that they had filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to go over California’s AB 5 contractor law and argue that they should remain exempt due to federal protections. Assembly Bill 5,...

Newsom Taps Johns Hopkins Senior Advisor Natalie Palugyai For Labor Secretary

July 15, 2021 10:53 am

Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday that Natalie Palugyai, currently the Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has been appointed as the next Secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (LWDA). Pulugyai will replace...