Heather L Williams

January 10, 2020 | The Legal Intelligencer

AB-5, known as the "gig worker" law, was signed into law on Sept. 18, 2019, by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who penned his support for the law in an op-ed touting a need to reverse what he called a "trend" of employer "misclassification" by re-classifying what could be tens of thousands of freelance workers and independent contractors as company employees.

By Roman T. Galas and Heather L. Williams

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