Navigating the Employee v. Independent Contractor Landscape in a Post-Dynamex World
3/25/19
By: Ariel Brotman
In a post-Dynamex world, hiring entities are finding it increasingly difficult to determine whether or not to classify a worker as an independent contractor or an employee.
On April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court issued …
Independent Contractor Or Employee?
9/20/18
By: Marshall Coyle
The California Supreme Court has established an “ABC test” that could make it extremely difficult for the state’s truckers to use independent contractors. In Dynamex Operations West Inc. v. Charles Lee, (Case S222732, April 30, 2018) the …
NLRB Doubles Down on ‘Joint Employer’ Standard Expansion
10/2/15
By: Tim Holdsworth
On August 27, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board discarded thirty years of precedent and handed down a new and expanded definition of joint employer. See Browning-Ferris Industries of California, 362 NLRB No. 186 (August 27, …
9/2/15
By: Mike Wolak
Restrictive covenants typically involve the “big three”: agreements not to compete, not to solicit the Company’s customers, and not to raid the Company’s staff upon separation from employment. As a result, the language of the “big three” …
