WASHINGTON — American Trucking Associations voiced support for steps to rescind a Biden-era labor rule during a recent hearing on Capitol Hill. Nathan Mehrens, ATA’s vice president for workforce ...

Earlier this month, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) filed an opening brief in its appeal against California’s AB 5 independent contractor law that effectively bans the ...

The trucking industry has strong opinions about regulators’ independent contractor classification rules. But how important are these rules? The classification concerns a regulation that has little ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Assembly Bill 5 determines if a worker is an independent contractor or an employee, giving exemptions to certain professions, but manicurists only have the exemption ...

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The California Trucking Association is ending its yearslong legal battle against the state’s controversial AB 5 worker reclassification law, which the group has long maintained forces independent ...

Before your business hires workers, you have a big decision to make: Will they be classified as employees or independent contractors? Here are some factors to consider from a business perspective and ...

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The state of California and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union have each responded to the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association’s (OOIDA) appeal of a case against California’s ...

A federal appeals court in California ruled Uber’s challenge to a state law aimed at making transportation gig workers employees instead of independent contractors cannot go forward, handing a major ...

What a pernicious bill. Assembly Bill 5 was signed into law in 2019 by Gov. Gavin Newsom and has caused nothing but chaos ever since, spawning major lawsuits. It classified most “gig” workers, such as ...

Uber lost its long-running attempt to overturn a California law that would require it to provide employment rights to its drivers and delivery workers. The ruling on Monday, June 10 by the 9th U.S.