PSA: The Supreme Court of California recently published a key decision on independent contractor versus employee classification, adopting an "ABC" test akin to

PSA: The Supreme Court of California recently published a key decision on independent contractor versus employee classification, adopting an "ABC" test akin to the one adopted in Massachusetts. http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/archive/S222732.PDF http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/archive/S222732.PDF > [A] worker is properly considered an independent contractor to whom a wage order does not apply only if the hiring entity establishes: (A) that the worker is free from the control and direction of the hirer in connection with the performance of the work, both under the contract for the performance of such work and in fact; (B) that the worker performs work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business; and (C) that the worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed for the hiring entity.