California Classification Law Blocked for Truck Drivers (2)

The roughly 70,000 truckers who operate as contractors in California won’t be bound by a new worker classification law while their lawsuit to block the measure moves forward, a San Diego federal judge said Thursday.

The temporary restraining order in place will be extended in the trucking industry’s challenge to the new California law that makes it harder for employers to classify workers as contractors. This represents the latest win for the industry in its fight to kill the measure they say will lose companies business.

A.B. 5, which went into effect Jan. 1, codified and expanded a 2018 California ...