Even WCAB Judges Say They're Having a Hard Time Keeping Up With Comp Laws

In July of last year, Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board Judges Robert Rassp and Eric Ledger guessed that California would soon add at least 1 million employees to payrolls across the state, thanks to the passage of Assembly Bill 5. “I said definitely a million more,” Rassp said. After lawmakers and voters passed a series of bills and exemptions that weakened the law in 2020, however, the two judges say they’re not so sure. “And now I don’t know,” Ledger said Wednesday during a WorkCompCentral webinar on AB 5, Proposition 22 and other recent l...