The controversy over the effect of AB5 on the trucking industry boiled over Monday, as independent drivers gathered at the entrances to the Port of Oakland to strike, disrupting operations.

AB5, California’s new gig economy law, has left the state’s performing artist community in a state of fear and confusion. The law is intended to reduce worker misclassification, making it ...

Carl Szabo notes the bitter irony of AB5 and the fate of many liberal freelance journalists in California—layoffs and income loss caused by the very law they had supported.

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As California's AB5, the new law governing independent-contract work, takes effect today, the state's trucking industry, and supply chains everywhere, will face major upheaval.

Organizations representing freelance journalists are mounting a legal challenge to a new California law that aims to rein in companies' use of independent contractors by placing certain ...

How AB5 is undercutting California’s creative sector Mickie Arnett, 45, (left) sits beside Andy Doty, 59, (right) inside the Old Town Blues Club in Temecula, Ca., on Friday, January 31st, 2020.

Read about the pros and cons of potential solutions motor carriers can take to keep using independent contractor drivers under California's AB5 law, outlined during an American Trucking ...

OPINION I'm a successful female minority truck driver. California's AB5 forced me to leave the state I love I was living my version of the American Dream, but California lawmakers had a very ...

The chief executive of food-delivery startup DoorDash said there could be disastrous consequences from a recently passed California bill designed to classify independent contractors as employees.

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS Uber and Postmates have filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block California’s AB5 gig-worker law, which is set to go into effect January 1.