A New Jersey delivery company will reclassify its drivers as full time employees and not as independent contractors. (Photo: Shutterstock)
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New Jersey is the latest state for a battle over independent contractor status.
The last-gasp OOIDA fight against the AB5 independent contractor law in California’s trucking sector has suffered defeat at the appellate level.
Two recent developments on independent contractor law are headed in different directions.
OOIDA made its case before a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as it fights alone against California’s AB5 applying to trucking.
California’s attorney general’s office has filed a brief against OOIDA’s attempts to block the AB5 independent contractor law from the state’s trucking sector.
Backers of California’s AB5 independent contractor law have scored a fresh victory after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the Postmates/Uber case.
A federal court decision on an Illinois employment law could pose a legal threat to carriers well beyond the state’s borders.
ATA and OOIDA are at odds in a very public way over the Biden administration independent contractor rule.
AB5, California’s independent contractor classification law, has won a second significant decision in a federal court, with all 11 members of a 9th Circuit panel upholding the law for Uber drivers.
Minnesota has reached a deal on compensation for Uber and Lyft drivers, and a California court seems to favor Proposition 22’s protections for gig workers from the state’s independent contractor law.
The California Trucking Association and OOIDA plan to appeal a recent decision upholding California’s independent contractor law, AB5, to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In this edition: Another hit to AB5, and the Southern gold rush has come.
The odds of winning the big AB5 independent contractor case on appeal, after last week’s smackdown in a lower court, are considered slim, observers say.
A new attempt to keep California’s independent contractor law AB5 from the state’s trucking sector was thoroughly rejected by a federal judge this week.
A lawsuit that goes back to 2010 and opened the door for the ABC test in New Jersey has been settled.
California’s Supreme Court will review a lower court and appellate court decision to settle the question of Prop 22’s constitutionality.
California has made its case in the latest round of AB5 legal proceedings, and it can cite the past trucking year in its arguments.
