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U.S. Supreme Court,
Labor/Employment,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Aug. 12, 2021

Truckers ask US Supreme Court to review worker classification

9th Circuit law is at odds with 1st Circuit law, they argue.

The U.S. Supreme Court should review a ruling that California's owner-operator truck drivers are employees, since there is a circuit split on whether federal law preempts state worker classification statutes, a trucking association argued in a petition for certiorari.

"Here, the Ninth Circuit upheld California's worker-classification statute as it...

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