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A class of drivers for a same-day delivery company, Dynamex, claimed that they were misclassified as independent contractors and thus unlawfully deprived of employment protections under California’s wage orders. [1] Their claims raised the question of what the appropriate standard was to determine whether workers should be classified as ...
Oxfam's latest report looks at workers' conditions in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and ranks them based on wage policies, worker protections, and the right to organize. The Best and Worst ...
Workers' compensation (which formerly was known as workmen's compensation until the name was changed to make it gender neutral) in the United States is a primarily state-based [1] system of workers' compensation. In the United States, some form of workers compensation is typically compulsory for almost all employers in most states (depending ...
California Assembly Bill 5 or AB 5 is a state statute that expands a landmark Supreme Court of California case from 2018, Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court ("Dynamex"). [1] In that case, the court held that most wage-earning workers are employees and ought to be classified as such, and that the burden of proof for classifying ...
Story at a glance The report gave Oregon high marks for its policies to improve workplace conditions and ensure workers’ right to form unions. The state also ranked first among Oxfam’s “Best ...
Oxfam has rated North Carolina as the "worst state" for workers for three straight years, with the group pointing to its low minimum wage of $7.25 (also the federal baseline), lack of paid leave ...
Workers' compensation or workers' comp is a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benefits to employees injured in the course of employment in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her employer for the tort of negligence. The trade-off between assured, limited coverage and lack of ...
Many of California's larger superior courts have specialized divisions for different types of cases like criminal, civil, traffic, small claims, probate, family, juvenile, and complex litigation, but these divisions are simply administrative assignments that can be rearranged at the discretion of each superior court's presiding judge in ...