In the latest chapter of the independent contractor or employee saga in California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in California Trucking Ass’n v. Bonta, ruled that.
A three-judge panel from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in April that trucking is not exempt from the law that effectively bans leased owner-operators.
Ninth Circuit ruled that California law relating to whether workers can be classified as employees is not preempted by FAAAA. It will remain difficult under California’s current test for transportation companies to establish independent contractor relationships with drivers.