California’s Supreme Court should not just declare that the worker-friendly classification test it outlined in 2018 is retroactive. The justices should also make clear the standard applies broadly to franchisees and other circumstances where companies contend they are exempt.
That was the opening argument from plaintiffs attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan in Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising International. Liss-Riordan urged the court to seize the opportunity presented in the worker classification case to close “escape hatches that employers will continue to exploit in the face of unsettled law” surrounding the justices’ ruling two years ago in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court.
