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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra

Uber, Lyft Ordered By Superior Court To Reclassify All Drivers As Employees

August 10, 2020   9:05 pmAugust 10, 2020   9:43 pm
On Monday, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman ruled that rideshare drivers in the state should be reclassified as employees, strengthening the AB 5 law passed last year. Rideshare drivers ruled to be employees Under Judge Schulman’s ruling,...
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California Atty General To File Injunction to Force Uber/Lyft to Reclassify Drivers as Employees Within Weeks

June 24, 2020   1:11 pmJune 25, 2020   4:04 pm
Last month, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and city attorneys from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, sued Uber and Lyft, claiming the companies wrongfully classified drivers as independent contractors – even as Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), author...
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Rideshare Drivers Ruled To Be Employees by CPUC Under AB 5

June 12, 2020   6:26 amJune 12, 2020   9:27 am
On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) announced that all rideshare service drivers in California will now be considered employees under the AB 5 contract worker law. CPUC decides against rideshare companies All Transportation Network Companies (TNCs), which includes...
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AB 5 Has Lifelong Democrats Voting Red for the First Time

May 18, 2020   8:01 amMay 18, 2020   2:07 pm
  Exit polls in the recent CA-25 Congressional race between Democratic Assemblywoman Christy Smith and Republican Mike Garcia revealed a lot of voters voting red as a protest over Assembly Bill 5, the bill authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San...
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California Democrats Again Kill Fix to AB5

May 15, 2020   10:06 amMay 15, 2020   10:07 am
California’s Senate Republicans introduced a package of bills earlier in the year to fix and/or fully repeal Assembly Bill 5, the bill authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) which has limited Californians’ ability to work as independent contractors and freelancers....
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Repeal AB 5: Innovation is Key to Recovery

April 30, 2020   3:08 pmApril 30, 2020   3:22 pm
Millions of Californians have filed for unemployment since the Governor’s March “shelter in place” order, and experts warn the state unemployment fund will be insolvent in two weeks or less if some sort of corrective action is not taken. One...
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Senator John Moorlach (Kevin Sanders for California Globe)

Senator Moorlach’s SB 990 Would Suspend Freelance Job Killer Assembly Bill 5

April 20, 2020   3:42 pm
Independent contracting allows workers freedom and control of how and when they work. Many say under AB 5, their liberty and freedom has been taken away.    Since Assembly Bill 5 became law January 1, 2020, millions of freelance and...
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