Employee Protections: Reclassifying Scores and Uber Postmates

employee protections: A bill winding through California's legislature that takes aim at gig-fueled companies like Uber and Postmates may upend long-standing showbiz practices by reclassifying scores of independent contractors as employees, and could render tax-lucrative loan-out companies useless, according to The Independent. The bill, AB 5, which the state assembly passed May 29, is designed to protect workers from being misclassified as independent contractors and therefore denied such employee protections as minimum wage, overtime pay and workers' compensation. CDATA p This fall, Hollywood studio executives may be in for a shock when it comes to their budgets. It seeks to codify and expand the California Supreme Court's 2018 Dynamex decision, and would presume every worker is an employee with a few exceptions for people like barbers and real estate agents unless a company can show that the worker meets three criteria under the so-called ABC Test. That test will necessarily lock talent out of being an independent contractor if it passes in its current form, says talent lawyer Rick Genow, whose clients include Debra Messing, Anthony Anderson and Henry Golding. The requirement that makes Hollywood nervous is that the independent contractor must perform duties outside the usual course of the company's business. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.