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Friday Deadline Marks Pressure for Finance Committees to Pass or Nix Work Comp Bills
08/30/2019
AB 5 AB 528 AB 346 and AB 1400. The Assembly Appropriations Committee will vote on SB 537 and SB 416.
AB 5 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez D-San Diego will focus on labor code disputes including workers compensation issues. The bill would codify the Dynamex decision requiring employers to
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Contractor Sentenced for Lacking Comp Insurance
08/20/2019
A contractor in Carmel has been sentenced to two years of probation for not having workers compensation insurance the Monterey County District Attorneys Office announced.
Raymond John Coopersmith Jr. 55 was also ordered to pay a 3000 fine. Coopersmith faces up to one year in county jail
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Senate Committee Passes Bill to Codify Dynamex Decision
07/12/2019
The bill to codify the California Supreme Court decision in Dynamex and require the use of the so-called ABC test to determine who is an employee and who is a contractor moved one step closer to the governors desk.
Assemblywoman
Lorena Gonzalez
The Senate Labor Public Employment and
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Assembly Passes Dynamex Bill After Author Adds More Tests
05/31/2019
so-called ABC test from the state Supreme Courts 2018 decision in Dynamex Operations West Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles to many Labor Code disputes. The high courts decision is currently limited to wage order disputes.
The bill by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez D-San Diego would
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Dynamex, Provider Network and Presumption Bills Set for Hearings as Deadline Looms
05/14/2019
workers DWC would incur costs to update reporting requirements and adjust internal systems to accommodate the new workload an analysis of SB 537 says. DIR notes that the costs associated with those efforts could be significant and would require hiring an external contractor and additional IT staff
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Operators of Construction Firm Admit to $6.3M Premium Fraud Scheme
04/25/2019
compensation fraud and one felony count of grand theft of labor. Vera owned Ultimate Inc. a construction company in Paramount.
His sister Gloria Vera 58 also pleaded no contest to one felony count each of work comp fraud and grand theft of labor. She was the office manager for Ultimate according to Los
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Cal/OSHA Cites Two Employers After Worker Crushed
04/19/2019
California workplace safety regulators have cited an agricultural employer and a farm labor contractor with proposed penalties totaling more than 100000 after a worker was crushed at a walnut processing facility in Tehama County.
Crain Walnut Shelling in Los Molinos faces proposed penalties
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Report: More Workers Seek Exemption From Employee Designation
04/15/2019
California business owners and self-employer workers made a pitch to be included among other groups that would not be subject to a pending bill to expand the use of a three-part test in determining who is an employee in labor disputes.
Assemblywoman
Lorena Gonzalez
The Orange County
Category: News
Court Won't Extend Deadline for Inmate to File Appeal
04/09/2019
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Facts Rene De Leon was an inmate of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
In July 2015 De Leon's job assignment was as a day laborer on a construction project on prison grounds and under the supervision of an outside building contractor.
A three-story scaffold gave way
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Employers Vow Support for Codifying Dynamex if Done With Exemptions
04/03/2019
Dynamex applicable to all disputes over employee status including workers' compensation claims. For the last year courts have limited the Dynamex test to wage order claims.
The high court said a person is an independent contractor only if the hiring party can prove
The worker is free from
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