With the resumption of the current legislative session on August 12, 2019, the a California Senate Committee briefly considered AB 5, the legislature’s purported solution to the California Supreme Court's opinion in Dynamex v. Superior Court.
On August 9, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing three amendments to its representation election regulations.
Podcast topics include the nomination of Eugene “Gene” Scalia to be Secretary of Labor, current leadership in the Department and its regulatory agenda and discussion of several significant rulemakings.
AB 5, currently pending in the California legislature, would impose the “ABC” test on California businesses and workers, dramatically altering the legal standards applied in evaluating whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor.
This podcast explores how AB 5 – if enacted in its current form – could dramatically alter the legal landscape of California’s employment classification law.
Although most state legislatures have adjourned for 2019 or are in recess, those still in active session finalized several new employment laws in July.
New Jersey has expanded its medical marijuana program and—for the first time since the state enacted the law—adopted formal protections for employees and job applicants who use what is now called “medical cannabis.”
