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Many California employees are entitled to important wage and hour protections under California law, including the right to receive (a) overtime compensation for any work performed in excess of eight hours in one workday, or in excess of 40 hours in one workweek and...
According to the UC Berkeley Labor Center, “nearly a quarter of truck drivers in California are working as independent contractors,” and “[r]esearch suggests that misclassification [of independent contractors] is particularly egregious in port trucking.” Read the full...
In The Mercury News, Maria Noel Fernandez and Ben Field note that when a company classifies a worker as an independent contractor rather than as an employee, "it avoids providing essentials like Social Security contributions, minimum wages, overtime and health care,...
In a recent article entitled "The End of an Era? How the ABC Test Could Affect Your Use of Independent Contractors," Forbes magazine discusses the ABC Test, which the California Supreme Court announced as law earlier this year in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v....