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CALIFORNIA COVID PLAN B

A month into California’s first attempt at loosening commercial restrictions (the “Pandemic Resilience Roadmap”), aJuly 13, 2020 public health orderrequired all counties to again close indoor operati...

PANDEMIC POLICE ON PATROL

California’sDivision of Occupational Safety and Health, better known as Cal/OSHAhas gone from bark – itsJuly 16 noticecalling on all employers to carefully review and followthe state’s COVID-19 workpl...

WHAT’S NEW IN 2021 CALIFORNIA’S NEWEST INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR LAW PART I

Effective September 4, 2020,Assembly Bill (AB) 2257– throughLabor Code section 2776– modifies and expands exemptions for bona fide business-to-business contracting relationships from the severe ABC in...

WHAT’S NEW IN 2021 CALIFORNIA’S NEWEST INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR LAW PART 2

Effective September 4, 2020,Assembly Bill (AB) 2257andLabor Code section 2777broaden the “referral agency” exception to the state’s strict “ABC” definition of independent contractors.

WHAT’S NEW IN 2021 CALIFORNIA’S NEWEST INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR LAW PART 3

Out of Sacramento’s political process has come passage ofAB 2257and newLabor Code 2778, effective September 4, 2020, providing a broader list of professional services exemptions from the rigid “ABC” t...

SAVED BY THE PROP

58 percent of California voters have approved Proposition 22, allowing Uber, Lyft, PostMates, DoorDash, Instacart, and other gig economy companies to continue classifying their workers as independent ...

BACK FROM THE BRINK – FOR NOW

As a San Francisco judge had directed that Uber and Lyft convert their drivers to employees by August 21, 2020,the rideshare giants were ready to shut down their California operationsunless the Court ...

FOR THE RECORD

As California supplies no specific definition for required personnel records, it falls to company management to judge what constitutes adequate documentation that reliably reflects each employee’s wor...

ONE BIG SCRAPPY FAMILY

After a month or more of eased restrictions, California’s“Statewide Public Health Officer Order”(July 13, 2020) required all counties to close indoor operations for • dine-in restaurants, • wineries and tasting rooms, • movie theaters, • family entertainment centers (for example: bowling alleys, miniature golf, batting cages and arcades), • zoos and museums, and • card rooms.