As a reminder to companies with independent contractors performing work in Seattle, the city's Independent Contractor Protections Ordinance, SMC 14.34, which expands protections for independent contractors, went into effect...more
What’s the difference between an employee and an independent contractor? Does it matter that you hired an engineer for your game in another country? What’s a PIIA? Wilson Sonsini Partners Jason Storck and Barath Chari know...more
7/21/2022
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Employer Liability Issues ,
Gaming ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Misclassification ,
Online Gaming ,
Proprietary Information ,
Remote Working ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Video Games
Companies with employees or independent contractors who work or reside in Washington State should take heed that Washington's Silenced No More Act (the act) goes into effect on June 9, 2022. The act places substantial limits...more
With the passage of Proposition 22 in the November 3, 2020, general election, California's gig economy scored a victory over the state's efforts to classify app-based rideshare and delivery company workers as employees rather...more
California's Supreme Court has issued a decision making it harder for companies to classify California workers as independent contractors. In Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court, the court adopted a broad...more
Notwithstanding—and perhaps because of—the emergence of the so-called "sharing economy" and its proliferation of disruptive new business models, as well as calls to re-examine the traditional and familiar employee versus...more
6/15/2015
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Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employee Rights ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
Joint Liability ,
Labor Code ,
Misclassification ,
Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) ,
Sharing Economy ,
Subcontractors ,
Unpaid Wages ,
Wage and Hour ,
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