Labor/Employment
Sep. 3, 2020
Independent contractors and AB 2257: different year, same story
At the zenith of the legislative session, 31 separate bills were under consideration to either amend or abandon AB 5. If, as expected, the governor signs the bills, will the arc of California’s independent contractor law be fundamentally altered?
Bruce J. Sarchet
Shareholder
Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Phone: (916) 830-7272
Email: bsarchet@littler.com
Last year at this time, Californians were bracing for a dramatic change in the legal test used to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor: Assembly Bill 5. True, some 15 months earlier the California Supreme Court had unanimously abandoned its prior test (S.G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations) and replaced it with the ABC test. But
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