When playing professional sports in Australia, you’d better watch out for snakes.
A venomous red-bellied black snake was spotted on the field at an Australian Football League Women’s match earlier this year, causing an...more
1/3/2024
/ ABC Test ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Enforcement Priorities ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Independent Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
Misclassification ,
NLRB ,
State and Local Government ,
State Labor Laws ,
Temporary Employees ,
Wage and Hour
For businesses using independent contractor vendors, misclassification claims are usually well-suited for class certification. A plaintiff’s path toward certifying a class can be relatively smooth when all vendors of a...more
7/11/2022
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Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Dynamex ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
Independent Contractors ,
Joint Employers ,
Misclassification ,
Predominance Requirement ,
Putative Class Actions ,
State Labor Laws ,
Subcontractors ,
Vendors ,
Wage and Hour
Originally published on WhoIsMyEmployee.com - May 3rd, 2021. Have you heard of Schrödinger’s cat? It’s not a real cat, like Felix or Brian Setzer. It’s a hypothetical, seemingly impossible cat that exists only in the world of...more
When outside forces pose a threat to people’s livelihood, people will go to great lengths to fight back....more
For years, state governments have claimed they were losing hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid withholdings as a result of independent contractor misclassification....more
The Law -
On September 19, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5) into law. The law takes effect January 1, 2020, although some provisions may be applied retroactively.
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On May 2, the Ninth Circuit expanded the application of the “ABC” test, adopted by the Supreme Court of California in Dynamex Ops. W. Inc. v. Superior Court....more