9th Circuit: AB 5 Does Not Violate Equal Protection

A federal appellate court held that the California Legislature was well within its rights to require different tests to decide whether a gig worker is an employee based on the type of services being provided, for roughly the same reason lawmakers were allowed to require that only some service providers pay fees when filing liens. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Monday's decision in Olson v. California said state lawmakers could have believed that misclassification was a greater problem among transportation and delivery companies than for other app-based services such as dog walki...