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Civil Litigation,
Labor/Employment,
Government

Sep. 19, 2019

As contract work reclassification bill is signed, legal challengers are prepared

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez keeps a framed picture in her office displaying the words, "A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep."

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez keeps a framed picture in her office displaying the words, "A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep."

Nor does the San Diego Democrat appear to have lost sleep over Uber Technologies Inc. chief legal officer Tony West's opinion that her bill, AB 5, signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, doesn't apply to his company in its classification of many heretofore contract workers as employees.

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