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BULLET DODGING PART 3
Effective January 1, 2020, a portion of Assembly Bill (AB) 5 — new Labor Code section 2750.3(e) — exempts bona fide business-to-business contracting relationships from the ultra-strict Dynamex “ABC” test for independent contractor classification.
BULLET DODGING PART 2
California’s “Professional Services” Exemption To Strict Independent Contractor Definition Licensed Beauticians Among the Eligible The product of Sacramento politics, specific “professional services” occupations will be exempted from the rigid “Dynamex ABC” standard for classifying independent contractors, California Labor Code 2750.3, effective January 1, 2020 (part of Assembly Bill (AB) 5). See, Dodging the Bullet (October […]
MEET THE FIRM: TIMOTHY BOWLES
Attorney Tim Bowles, July 2019 Tim Bowles, our lead attorney, has an extensive and successful 40-plus year history as a litigator. A graduate of the University of California Berkeley (1971) and University of California Davis School of Law (1977), Tim mentored under some of the leading constitutional and trial lawyers of the day, representing churches […]
THE LAW OFFICES OF TIMOTHY BOWLES IS PASADENA WEEKLY’S BEST LAW FIRM OF 2019!
The Law Offices of Timothy Bowles has been voted Pasadena Weekly’s Best Law Firm of 2019! We would like to thank our community for voting and allowing us to serve you since 1998. Click here to see where you can pick up your copy the newspaper out now!
DODGING THE BULLET
The Industries and Professions Not Subject to California’s New Independent Contractor Restrictions Effective January 1, 2020, Assembly Bill (AB) 5 will dramatically extend the ultra-strict Dynamex “ABC” test for independent contractor classification. See, California’s Independent Contractors, Endangered Species? (October, 2019). However, a portion of AB-5, to become Labor Code section 2750.3(b), exempts several specific industries/licensed […]
CALIFORNIA’S INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS
An Endangered Species by Newly Enacted “AB 5” Until April 2018, the 11-factor balancing test in S. G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations (California Supreme Court) had long applied to classifying workers as employees or independent contractors. That court then dramatically changed the rules in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior […]
BOSS SAUCED
Senior Managers Must Prevent Supervisor Harassment, Discrimination It is illegal for employers to discriminate against or harass employees because of age, national origin, and other protected classifications. An employer that terminates an employee for such reasons can anticipate a lawsuit for wrongful termination. Also, an employee resignation due to a discriminatory work environment created or […]
NO FLY ZONE APPROACHING
October, 2020 “REAL ID” Requirements For Air Travel Will Not Impact Employment Eligibility As covered in Immigration Nation (August, 2019), the federal government requires all U.S. employers to verify both identity and work authorization for each employee hired within the U.S., including citizens and non-citizens, using “Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification” (the I-9 Form or […]
CAUTIONARY TALES EPISODE 35
OVER THE BORDERLINE State Agency Settles Sex and National Origin Discrimination Case for $450,0000 On July 26, 2019 the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) announced the $450,000 settlement of a sexual harassment, national origin and retaliation case against Pioneer Pines Mobile Home Park. The complainant, a female employee of Mexican descent who […]
CAUTIONARY TALE EPISODE 34
DON’T BE COLD TO THE OLD Google Settles Age Discrimination Case for $11 Million Federal age discrimination protections, including the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), apply to companies with 20 or more on payroll. California’s workplace anti-discrimination law, the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), applies to employers with five or more […]