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3 February 2021

Policy Matters Podcast – Episode 6: How California's Controversial Worker Classification Test Could Affect Federal Policy

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Often, what happens in California is a good bellwether for what could happen in the policy space on a federal level. And we believe worker classification is no different.
United States California Employment and HR

Often, what happens in California is a good bellwether for what could happen in the policy space on a federal level. And we believe worker classification is no different.

In this episode of Seyfarth's Policy Matters Podcast, Counsel Scott Mallery and Partner Eric Lloyd provide an overview of where the law on misclassification at the federal level stands today, the background and impact of AB 5 and AB 2257 in California, and insight into what we might see down the road from the Department of Labor, now under the Biden Administration.

Listen to the episode here.

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