Labor/Employment,
California Supreme Court
Sep. 20, 2018
Dynamex ruling detonates a common business model
It didn’t take long for the decision to start claiming victims. Bottle & Barlow, a joint on trendy R Street in Sacramento where a gentleman can sip whiskey and also be stylishly shorn, has lost its entire staff of freelance barbers.
Kerry Jackson
Fellow
Pacific Research Institute
Kerry is a fellow with the Center for California Reform at the PRI.
It didn't take long for a California Supreme Court decision to start claiming victims. Bottle & Barlow, a "get loose stay sharp" joint on trendy R Street in Sacramento, where a gentleman can sip whiskey and also be stylishly shorn, has lost its entire staff of freelance barbers because seven justices agreed to make it more difficult for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors.
"There's gonna be a lot of shops th...
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