Bill Could Apply Holding From Dynamex to Comp

The three-part test to determine whether a worker is an employee that the California Supreme Court adopted this summer for wage-order claims could be applied to workers’ compensation and other issues, under one of the first bills introduced for the 2019 state legislative session. At the same time, another bill introduced Monday would essentially render the so-called “ABC test” from Dynamex superfluous by adopting the 10-part test of contractor status from the high court’s 30-year-old decision in S.G. Borello & Sons Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relation...