independent contractors

Freelance Journalists and Photographers File a Lawsuit Challenging California’s New Law Reclassifying Independent Contractors as Employees

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights, Employment Classification
According to NBC Los Angeles, freelance writers and photographers are challenging California’s new law that reclassifies workers as employees instead of independent contractors. The law is a codification of the Dynamex case (a ruling of the California Supreme Court) which aimed to help independent contractors obtain ...

P2 of California Employment Laws Scheduled to Take Effect in 2020

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: california new bill, Employee Rights, Employment Law Classification
Part 2. Classification of Workers of California's New Laws Scheduled to Take Effect in 2020 One major California law that affects California employment is the codification of the Dynamex decisions which changed the way workers are classified. Now, many more workers will qualify for employee status and not independen...

Federal Court: Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Independent Contractors

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights, Employment - Class Actions, Wage Violations
After months of speculation, a federal court in Northern California held that drivers for Uber are employees and not independent contractors due to Uber's control over the drivers' schedules, routes, pay, and training. The court was considering whether to certify a class action of thousands of drivers who had signe...

Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Independent Contractors

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights
The California Labor Commissioner ruled recently that Uber drivers are employees and not independent contractors of the Uber corporation, in a decision that could shake up the car sharing industry. Defendants Uber Technologies, Inc. and Rasier-CA LLC (collectively, Uber) argued that Plaintiff was an independent contrac...

Danz’ Weekly Employee Rights Update

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights
In this segment of Danz' 'Weekly Employee Rights Update', we aim to provide educational and timely information from recent cases and laws. (1) If you're used to waiving your second meal period, you may be out of luck. A recent court of appeals decision in California ruled that employees who work longer than tw...

Employee Rights–Misclassification as Independent Contractor

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights
Employee Rights: California employees misclassified as independent contractors seem to present low-hanging fruit to Calfiornia employers.As California's largest employee-only law firm, we've seen just about all variations on this theme that employers can throw at the public.  A case has just denied these seedy e...