States May Be Reacting to California's Dynamex Decision

The California Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the Dynamex case, which established a three-part test for determining if a worker is an independent contractor, could be having ripple effects in other states. The court’s April 2018 decision in Dynamex Operations West Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles created a presumption that someone working for a company is an employee, unless the worker meets three criteria to be deemed an independent contractor. Under the so-called ABC test, the worker must be free from control by the employer; doing work outside the employer’...