AB5: California’s Controversial Gig-Work Law Took Effect January 1, 2020
1/7/20
By: Margot Parker As of January 1, 2020, California’s AB5 may require employers to reclassify hundreds of thousands of independent contractors as employees with broad labor law protections. The new law codifies the “ABC test” adopted by the California Supreme Court in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles in 2018. Under…