Month: August 2020

What California Employers Need to Know about Newly Classified Employees

By / September 2, 2020

In the aftermath of the 2018 Dynamex decision and its subsequent codification in AB5 (the “gig workers bill”), California employers are finding themselves having to treat former independent contractors as employees under California state law. This not only applies to employers physically operating in California but also any employer who has workers located in the …

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The ABCs of AB5

By / August 19, 2020

Earlier this month, a California judge ordered Lyft and Uber to reclassify their workers while the litigation over the companies’ compliance with Assembly Bill No. 5 (AB5), A.K.A. “the gig workers bill,” continues. The order comes after more than a year of Lyft and Uber refusing to classify their drivers as employees under the new …

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The EU’s high court just demolished the EU-US Privacy Shield…now what?

By / August 3, 2020

Last month, in what may seem like a deja vu moment from 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) surprisingly struck down the EU-US Privacy Shield.  The Privacy Shield was the legal mechanism that more than 5,300 organizations used to transfer personal data between the EU and the US. Of the companies …

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