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Civil Litigation,
Labor/Employment,
California Supreme Court

Aug. 27, 2018

Does the high court’s Dynamex decision apply retroactively?

In what is, apparently, the first widely disseminated ruling, one court has already answered this question with a resounding “yes.”

Michael H. Leb

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THE NEUTRAL CORNER is a monthly column discussing recent cases or topics of interest from a neutral's perspective.

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Does the high court’s Dynamex decision apply retroactively?
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THE NEUTRAL CORNER

In a prior column (June 26, 2018), I wrote about Holmgren v. County of Los Angeles, 159 Cal. App. 4th 593 (2008), a case that effectively renders the blockbuster California Supreme Court decision in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court, 4 Cal. 5th 903 (2018) (establishing new test for independent contractor status under Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Orders) ir...

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