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What Assembly Bill 5 Means for Linguists
On Sept 18th, California Governor Gavin Newsom
signed Assembly Bill 5 (CA AB 5) into law which will take effect in January.
The new California state law reclassifies a large number of independent
contractors as employees, making them entitled to labor protections, such as
minimum wage and unemployment benefits. While AB 5 was written with companies like
Uber in mind, the translation and interpreting...