September 01, 2020
A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday questioned whether motor carriers can prove that federal law trumps a new California law that raised the bar for legally classifying workers as independent contractors, as it considers whether an injunction in the case was justified.
May 07, 2020
The California Trucking Association told the Ninth Circuit Wednesday that a district court properly gave motor carriers a temporary legal shield while they pursue their constitutional challenge to a Golden State law that raises the bar for legally classifying workers as independent contractors.
March 19, 2020
As the coronavirus continues to ravage California, the lead lawmaker behind the state's recent worker classification reform has called on regulators to let misclassified workers collect unemployment, and the cities of Oakland and Los Angeles have urged the Ninth Circuit to reapply the law to truckers.
March 12, 2020
California should be allowed to enforce a controversial employment law against companies in the trucking industry, the state's attorney general has told the Ninth Circuit in the latest salvo in a sprawling fight over the new worker classification rule.