In a major shift in government policy, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is proposing new guidelines on employee classification, but it may not impact the question of whether truckers in California will eventually fall under the rules of AB5, that state’s law on employee classification.
The guidelines would be the first set out by the DOL under the Fair Labor and Standards Act (FLSA). It does have parallels to the ABC test in California in that it sets out a sort of checklist of questions to be...