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California Governor Signs AB5: When in Doubt, Worker Is Employee

By Mark I. Schickman, Freeland Cooper & Foreman, LLP Sep 19, 2019 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Sep 19, 2019

For most of a century, California law has favored the employment relationship and creates a likely presumption that a person whom you allow to perform work is an employee. The California Legislature just added one more brick to the employment wall, sending Assembly Bill (AB) 5 to Governor Gavin Newsom, who has signed it into […]

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Predictability in the Law After Dynamex—Who Knows?

By Mark I. Schickman, Freeland Cooper & Foreman, LLP Aug 26, 2019 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Aug 26, 2019

We still don’t know whether Governor Gavin Newsom will be a brake on California’s Democratic legislature or a rubber stamp. The California Assembly’s recent passage of Assembly Bill (AB) 5 may provide an early test, once it passes the Senate—which it surely will.