Posts tagged misclassified
Gig workers in California must be treated as employees by WorkWhile in $7.2 million agreement
October 26, 2026 // The agreement ends a lawsuit filed in June 2024 by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu. His office said WorkWhile treated workers as independent contractors instead of employees, leaving them without the wage and hour protections employees receive.
New Jersey Revives the Fight To Reclassify Gig Workers as Employees
August 18, 2026 // All of these laws are designed to apply employee-style rules to gig workers, even if broad reclassification had failed to take off legislatively across the country. Yet recent rule making from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development shows that stringent ABC tests are unfortunately far from dead.