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California Assembly Bill 5 or AB 5 is a state statute that expands a landmark Supreme Court of California case from 2018, Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court ("Dynamex"). [1] In that case, the court held that most wage-earning workers are employees and ought to be classified as such, and that the burden of proof for classifying ...
California Refinery and Chemical Plant Worker Safety Act of 1990 added section 7872 and 7873 to the Labor Code. On September 25, 1992, AB 2601 was signed into law. [20] It protected gays and lesbians against employment discrimination. [21] California was the seventh state to add sexual orientation to laws barring job discrimination. [22]
Several Uber drivers have claimed to be employees, despite their classification as independent contractors. Some of the drivers sued after California passed a law aimed at requiring gig economy companies to classify workers as employees that took effect January 1, 2020. [13] Likewise, many more workers in the gig economy are making similar claims.
The effort helped boost California's minimum wage, but except for a few Starbucks locations in recent months, the state's quick-service eateries, with 550,000 employees, have fought off unionization.
The distinction between independent contractor and employee is an important one in the United States, as the costs for business owners to maintain employees are significantly higher than the costs associated with hiring independent contractors, due to federal and state requirements for employers to pay FICA (Social Security and Medicare taxes) and unemployment taxes on received income for ...
California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. [3] In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.
The new protections are thanks to an amendment to California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act that was approved by Gov. Gavin Newsom back in 2022. Laws protecting California workers who use ...
A driver for Uber is an employee, not a contractor, according to a California ruling that eventually could push up costs for the smartphone-based ride hailing service and hurt the closely watched ...