Labor/Employment
Mar. 20, 2024
No injunction for truckers challenging gig worker law
The truckers’ renewed motions for preliminary injunction were denied, but plaintiffs could focus on the business-to-business exception on appeal to combat being classified as employees.
U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez
The California Trucking Association and individual drivers may have a tough task, but also an avenue, for appealing from a federal judge’s ruling that AB5, California’s worker classification law, is not unconstitutional when applied to the goods transport industry, attorneys who have dealt with similar challenges to the legislation said.
U.S. District Judge Roger T. Benitez in San Diego denied on March 15 the association’s renewed motions...