Republicans Fail to Overturn California’s Independent Contractor Crackdown
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Courthouse News Service
A GOP bid to overturn a California law that reclassifies independent contractors as full-time employees working in the gig economy fizzled in committee Thursday afternoon. Shannon Grove, a Republican state senator from Bakersfield, wrote Senate Bill 806 that seeks to repeal Assembly Bill 5 — a state law that codified a state court decision that held most workers are employees and should be accorded the accompanying benefits.
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