{"id":76577,"date":"2019-05-30T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/?post_type=commentary&p=76577"},"modified":"2019-05-30T00:01:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T07:01:41","slug":"a-new-front-in-battle-over-gig-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/_zh\/commentary\/2019\/05\/a-new-front-in-battle-over-gig-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"A new front in battle over gig workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most contentious \u2013 and potentially far-reaching \u2013 bills of the current legislative session is Assembly Bill 5<\/a>, which would draw a legal line between the definitions of employees and contractors.<\/p>\n

AB 5, carried by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, a San Diego Democrat, is an outgrowth of a state Supreme Court decision establishing a three-factor test to determine whether a worker can be a contractor or must be considered to be an employee.<\/p>\n

It creates, therefore, uncertainty about the status of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of California workers and could lead to a blizzard of individual legal conflicts.<\/p>\n

Overall, the decision, dubbed Dynamex<\/a> for the package delivery company that was the chief defendant and whose contract drivers were the issue, will probably lead to many contract employees being reclassified. But who and how many are the subjects of AB 5.<\/p>\n

The bill would essentially place the Dynamex decision into state labor law, thus shielding it from being overturned by some future court. However, as now written, the bill would also carve out exemptions for some kinds of non-employee workers, such as real estate and insurance agents, hair stylists, barbers and investment advisors.<\/p>\n

Lobbyists for many other economic sectors are petitioning Gonzalez for exemptions before the bill reaches Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s desk, but she seems unlikely to bend much further.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez is a former labor union official and contends that those who perform core functions for an employer should be payroll workers with the benefits that come from that status, including unemployment, disability and workers\u2019 compensation insurance coverage.<\/p>\n

The decision, and her legislation, are clearly aimed at thwarting expansion of the so-called \u201cgig economy\u201d of part-time, short-term, and contract work, most famously the taxi-like services offered via such firms as Uber and Lyft.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, another front has been opened in the same conflict \u2013 this one affecting contract workers for governmental agencies.<\/p>\n

Last year, in a case involving the Cambria Community Services District<\/a> in San Luis Obispo County, the board that governs the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) declared that an employee of a third-party contractor for the district was a \u201ccommon law employee\u201d and therefore, Cambria must make contributions to CalPERS for that worker\u2019s pension benefits.<\/p>\n

The employee involved in the Cambria case served as an interim finance manager for eight months in 2014 under a contract between the district and Regional Government Services. RGS was created by a consortium of local governments specifically to provide temporary workers, such as retired public employees, to agencies \u201cwithout jeopardizing retirement benefits from prior employment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CalPERS assertion that the worker involved, Tracy Fuller, was entitled to have pension contributions made by Cambria stems from another state Supreme Court decision, issued in 1970 in an employment insurance case, defining a \u201ccommon law employee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now the CalPERS board is poised, during a June meeting, to declare its Cambria decision as \u201cprecedential,\u201d meaning that it could be cited in future disputes over whether local government workers hired under contract could be deemed to be employees for pension purposes, thus requiring contributions to CalPERS.<\/p>\n

Regional Government Services and other local government groups fear that widespread application of the ruling would raise their costs and discourage local agencies from using contract workers \u2013 much as employers see the Dynamex decision as making their operations more expensive and less flexible.<\/p>\n

On the flip side, both Dynamex and the CalPERS ruling are boons to California\u2019s labor unions, giving them more opportunities to recruit workers once they are designated as employees.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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