Companies have a lot to lose if they misclassify employees as independent contractors. The affected workers can sue (individually or as a class) for any number of wage and hour
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Ten Commandments for Avoiding Employment Lawsuits in California
By Jeffrey D. Polsky on
From the employer’s perspective, the only way to truly “win” an employment case is to avoid it in the first place. We litigators love the thrill of gettting a…
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State Determines Workers Are Independent Contractors, then Penalizes Employer for Not Treating Them as Employees
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Many employers in California feel like the deck is stacked against them. But as I’ve written before, some have a stronger basis for that conclusion than others. Consider the…
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A Useful Questionnaire For Distinguishing Employees from Independent Contractors
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We’ve written quite a bit about the new penalties for mischaracterizing employees as independent contractors. But we haven’t talked as much about how to draw the distinction. Partly that’s…
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