The bill signing season is well underway. Governor Gavin Newsom put pen to paper on many bills, including measures increasing the number of exemptions to the Dynamex ABC test and …
The California Legislature is sending a major group of exemptions from the Dynamex ABC test for differentiating between independent contractors and employees to the Governor for approval. It is an …
The Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DSLE) says it is not pursuing employers with workers’ comp coverage that is nonexistent or inadequate to meet their obligation …
An administrative law judge for the California Public Utilities Commission says that transportation network companies (TNCs) like Lyft and Uber should be providing their drivers with workers’ comp coverage. The …
Efforts to reform last year’s AB 5 legislation by exempting many more industries cleared the Assembly policy and appropriations committees and appear headed to the Senate. Covered industries include musicians, …
The growing legal battle over California’s AB 5 legislation that raised the bar for declaring a worker an independent contractor is playing out in two different San Francisco courts that …
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s initial budget proposal included $17.5 million in new funds for the Department of Industrial Relations to implement and enforce the provisions of AB 5 that took effect …