by Rob Cruz | Aug 5, 2020 | TalentWave Blog
The end of July brought some interesting developments in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. First, on July 29, the Minnesota Supreme Court tossed common law on its head in a case involving Hospitals and Independent Contractor (IC) Physicians. Traditionally, the law in...
by Rob Cruz | Apr 20, 2020 | TalentWave Blog
Five years ago, in an article for Workforce Magazine, I wrote about the need to create a third class of U.S. workers. This “Quasi-Independent Contractor (IC)” would better fit the economy and reality of modern times. A new class of worker that lays somewhere between a...
by Rob Cruz | Oct 23, 2019 | TalentWave Blog
Chinese general and philosopher Sun Tzu said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” AB5 may not be an “enemy” per se, but it is an unclear piece of legislation that has many people up in arms. As a new law, we...
by Rob Cruz | Sep 12, 2019 | TalentWave Blog
AB5, the bill that sprang forth from the jaws of the Dynamex decision, and that will change the test for worker misclassification as well as the landscape for independent contractors in California, is poised to land on the Governor’s desk for signature next month....
by Rob Cruz | Jun 4, 2019 | TalentWave Blog
Just one year and one month since the Dynamex decision rocked the pillars of California’s worker classification regime, it’s come to this: On May 29, 2019, the California legislature overwhelmingly passed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5). That bill, which is now off to the State...
