The last-gasp battle against implementing California’s AB5 independent contractor law in the trucking sector has taken what might be its final blow in a federal appellate court.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled for the second time that AB5 does not violate various laws that might have kept it from becoming the law of the land in trucking. AB5 has been in effect in numerous other sectors since the start of 2020, though dozens of industries have been granted exceptions from the law.
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