State lawmakers mull the future of work in California

The Legislature’s 2019 session will end in two weeks and no issue will have more impact on California’s workers and economic future than Assembly Bill 5 — even if it doesn’t pass.
AB5 would place in law, with some exceptions, a landmark state Supreme Court decision that sharply tightened the legal parameters governing whether workers can be independent contractors or must become payroll employees.
The 2018 Dynamex decision, named for a Southern California package delivery