05/31/2019
The California Assembly passed a bill that would specify which tests should be used to determine whether certain groups of workers should be classified as contractors.
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez
The Assembly voted 59-15 on Wednesday to pass Assembly Bill 5.
The bill would apply the
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05/28/2019
disagree but thats what their position is going to be.
Lawmakers passed a pair of bills in 2016 in response to massive public health care fraud schemes such as the one involving Michael D. Drobot and Pacific Hospital of Long Beach.
Assembly Bill 1244 requires the DWC to indefinitely suspend
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05/14/2019
status to all Labor Code disputes.
A fiscal analysis of AB 5 by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez D-San Diego has not been posted to the Legislatures website.
The bill would essentially make the state Supreme Courts 2018 decision in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court of Los Angeles the law
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04/26/2019
and Retirement on Wednesday voted 5-0 to pass SB 731 by Sen. Steven Bradford D-Gardena.
The bill would require the approximate percentage of the permanent disability caused by other factors shall not include consideration of race religious creed color national origin age gender marital
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04/15/2019
Register reports the employers on Thursday met at a local chamber of commerce to discuss their desire to be excluded from Assembly Bill 5. The bill by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez D-San Diego would apply the so-called ABC test to all Labor Code issues including workers compensation cases where
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04/03/2019
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The employer coalition on Monday posted online a letter sent to Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez D-San Diego listing the exemptions she needs to add to her Assembly Bill 5 to win the group's support.
AB 5 would make the so-called "ABC Test" the high court created with the 2018 decision in
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03/27/2019
D-San Diego said language in Assembly Bill 5 that would codify the so-called ABC Test the state Supreme Court created in Dynamex West Operations v. Superior Court was a declaration of existing law according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
Gonzalez told the newspaper she doesnt want
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02/08/2019
action against possible federal rollbacks of the electronic reporting requirements through Assembly Bill 2334 which was signed into law in September and took effect on Jan. 1.
Under the new law Cal-OSHA must monitor implementation of federal OSHAs electronic reporting rule issued in May 2016
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01/22/2019
issued decisions limiting the Dynamex test to wage-order claims.
However Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher D-San Diego introduced Assembly Bill 5 before the 2019 session had started proposing to apply the so-called ABC Test from Dynamex to all labor disputes including workers compensation
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11/16/2018
dismissed with prejudice and carriers are forever discharged from liability.
The dismissal of Howser's liens marks the second completion of a large lien consolidation conducted under Assembly Bill 1244 legislation that took effect in January 2017 that directed the DWC to stay liens filed by
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