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On April 3, 2025, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (“DOL”) filed proposed new rules codifying its interpretation of the statutory ABC test to determine whether an individual is considered an...more
On April 28, 2025, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) issued a press release announcing the publication of proposed regulations interpreting the “ABC test” used to determine whether workers...more
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) recently issued proposed regulations aimed at clarifying how employers should apply the “ABC test” to determine whether a worker is properly classified as...more
On April 3, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development proposed new rules under the New Jersey Administrative Code (“N.J.A.C.”) Section 12:11, which are designed to clarify the application of the “ABC test.”...more
Last month, the most significant legal development in the area of independent contractor (IC) compliance and misclassification was on Capitol Hill. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a Senate Republican who chairs the Senate Health,...more
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Industry (the Department) announced on April 28, 2025, that it was filing a notice of a proposed regulation addressing the test for independent contractor (IC) status under New Jersey...more
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOL) announced proposed regulations that purportedly clarify the so-called “ABC test” for determining whether workers should be classified as employees or...more
In a refreshing break for business in the Bay State, two recent appellate court decisions have confirmed that legitimate independent contractor relationships are alive and well in Massachusetts. Those decisions are Patel, et...more
As March Madness gets underway, a California federal judge has called a flagrant foul and ejected the trucking industry from its ongoing battle to challenge Assembly Bill No. 5 (“AB5”)....more
Pennsylvania is cracking down on misclassification of workers, and the costs to employers could be steep. Pennsylvania is placing an emphasis on employee classification. Recent investigations into misclassification have...more
In this episode of The Burr Broadcast, Chandler Aragona explains the new Independent Contractor rule that goes into effect on March 11, 2024. ...more
When playing professional sports in Australia, you’d better watch out for snakes. A venomous red-bellied black snake was spotted on the field at an Australian Football League Women’s match earlier this year, causing an...more
On June 13, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a decision, referred to as Atlanta Opera Inc. (372 NLRB No. 95), that marks a shift in the applicable test for whether a worker qualifies as an independent...more
In a recently published appellate division decision, Kennedy v. Weichert Co., a New Jersey court addressed the issue of classification of commissioned real estate salespeople as independent contractors. The court ruled that...more
Uber just settled its New Jersey UI audit on independent contractor assessment for $100,000,000, down from an original sum much greater. Pretty good considering that misclassification is a heavy focus of the NJ Department of...more
In a recent decision in Bailey v. Millennium Group of Delaware et al, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit confirmed that the ABC Test – long used by the New Jersey Department of Labor – sets forth the...more
The U.S. Supreme Court recently denied the California Trucking Association's (CTA) petition for certiorari related to a case involving federal preemption of California Assembly Bill 5 (AB-5), a law that changed the legal...more
For businesses using independent contractor vendors, misclassification claims are usually well-suited for class certification. A plaintiff’s path toward certifying a class can be relatively smooth when all vendors of a...more
On March 17, Rover—a digital application connecting pet owners with daily pet-care providers—argued to the Ninth Circuit that it should uphold a California federal judge’s finding that a dog-sitter was properly classified as...more
On March 24, 2022, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled in Patel v. 7-Eleven that the test for independent contractor status set forth in the Massachusetts independent contractor statute applies to the...more
At the end of 2020, it seemed the legislature, the courts, and even California voters wanted to move away from the independent contractor test codified in Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5). However, during 2021, the pendulum seems to...more
On Friday, a California Superior Court judge held that California's Proposition 22--which allowed certain "gig economy" workers to be classified as independent contractors--is unconstitutional. California voters passed...more
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in California Trucking Association v. Bonta, has reversed the preliminary injunction staying enforcement of AB 5 (now Labor Code § 2775). ...more
A federal court in California certified a class of Matco Tools franchisees who claimed to be misclassified by Matco as independent contractors rather than employees. They claimed Matco did this to avoid obligations owed to...more
On Friday, March 12, 2021, the California Court of Appeal issued a ruling in Wilson v. The La Jolla Group that addresses the appropriate scope of class treatment for employee misclassification under Dynamex Operations West,...more