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Owner-operators of freight trucks in California may be classified as employees, federal court rules. FacebookTwitterEmail Trucks are stranded on Interstate 5 in California during a winter storm. More than 70,000 truckers in California can be classified as employees rather than contractors, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.David McNew / Getty Images More than 70,000 owners of freight and delivery trucks in California can be classified as employees of the companies that hire them, with rights to overtime and sick pay and work expenses, rather than as independent contractors, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. A federal judge had ruled that a California law allowing the owners to be considered employees interfered with uniform nationwide regulation of interstate transportation. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego barred the law, AB5, from applying to truckers in 2020 and cited a 1994 federal law overriding any state laws that are “related to a price, route

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