In\u00a0Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising International, Inc.<\/i>, a decade-old proposed class action against a franchisor, the Ninth Circuit ruled on May 2, 2019, that the recent California Supreme Court case\u00a0Dynamex Ops. W. Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles<\/i>, 416 P.3d 1 (Cal. 2018) applies retroactively.<\/p>\n
Vazquez\u00a0<\/i>is a warning for franchises and other businesses that use independent contractors to practically analyze their business models using the ABC test and consider whether amendments to contracts or changes to their business models are needed so that contractors and workers are not deemed to be employees.<\/p>\n
View the full Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In\u00a0Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising International, Inc., a decade-old proposed class action against a franchisor, the Ninth Circuit ruled on May 2, 2019, that the recent California Supreme Court case\u00a0Dynamex Ops. W. Inc. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles, 416 P.3d 1 (Cal. 2018) applies retroactively. Vazquez\u00a0is a warning for franchises and other businesses that use … <\/p>\n Continue reading “A Warning for Franchises: Ninth Circuit Retroactively Applies California\u2019s Independent Contractor Standard in Class Action”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[186,188,5,187,189,8],"ppma_author":[191],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class-action","tag-employment-law","tag-franchise-law","tag-independent-contractors","tag-ninth-circuit","tag-sheila-raftery-wiggins"],"authors":[{"term_id":191,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/franchiselaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}