California Truckers Can’t Fight Contractor Test With New Law (1)

California truckers for now can’t push for a federal carveout from a 2018 state Supreme Court ruling that created a rigid test for labeling workers as contractors, a federal judge in California held. That’s because the state recently enacted legislation incorporating the ruling, but that won’t go into effect until 2020.

Assembly Bill 5, or A.B. 5, will take effect on Jan. 1. The new law raises questions about the California Trucking Association’s standing to challenge last year’s Dynamex Operations West Inc. v. Super. Ct. ruling, Judge Roger Benitez of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of ...