Labor/Employment,
Civil Litigation,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Sep. 24, 2021
ABC Test is alive and well in the 9th Circuit
This week, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit ruled in favor of a Grubhub driver who had originally sued the company in 2015 for misclassifying him as an independent contractor and denying him minimum wage and other employment benefits.
Ronald L. Zambrano
Employment Litigation Chair
West Coast Employment Lawyers
Phone: 213-927-3700
Email: ron@westcoasttriallawyers.com
Ron chairs the firm's Employment Litigation Department.
The verdict is in for gig companies: Proposition 22 did not signal the death of Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court, 4 Cal. 5th 903 ( 2018), and its ABC test for worker classification. On Sept. 20, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a Grubhub driver who had originally sued the company in 2015 f...
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