The Law at Work: ABCs of AB5, independent contractor law
Last year, the California Supreme Court announced a demanding three-part test hiring entities must meet to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees. In his Law at Work column in the San Diego Union-Tribune, SCMV Shareholder Dan Eaton outlines Assembly Bill 5, which, effective Jan. 1, broadens that test beyond violations of the state’s wage orders, narrows the types of work to which that test applies, and authorizes the city attorneys of big California cities, including San Diego, to sue hiring entities to enforce the new law.
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