Business Law
Business Law News 2019, Issue 2
Content
- 2017-2018 Commercial Law Developments, Part I.E (Priority)
- Bln Editorial Board: Letter from the Editor
- Business Law News Editorial Team
- Business Law News Table of Contents
- Executive Committee: Message from the Chair
- Executive Committee of the Business Law Section 2018-2019
- Settlement Negotiation Ethics for Attorney-Advocates under California's New (2018) Rules of Professional Conduct: Part Two
- Standing Committee Officers of the Business Law Section 2018-2019
- The Dangerous Allure of Form Loan Documents
- The Abc's of Employment: Sports Industry Misclassification Issues in the Era of Dynamex
The ABC’s of Employment: Sports Industry Misclassification Issues in the Era of Dynamex
Adam F. Sloustcher, Esq. and Jason A. Fischbein, Esq.
Adam Sloustcher of Fisher & Phillips LLP represents local, regional, and national employers in a broad range of employment disputes, including single-plaintiff discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination matters and wage-and-hour class actions. Adam also specializes in counseling employers on how to prevent lawsuits altogether. Adam is based in San Diego, California, but also serves clients in Northern Californiaâwhere he grew up and where he played professional soccer for the San Jose Earthquakes.
Jason Fischbein is an associate in Fisher & Phillips LLP’s San Diego office. He represents and counsels employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, including employment discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, retaliation, and wage-and-hour class action lawsuits. Jason is a native San Diegan who volunteers locally as a baseball coach in his spare time.
For years, employers in the sports industry have reaped the benefits of classifying workers as independent contractors. These advantages include massive savings on labor costs, unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, taxes, and benefits, as well as avoiding liability relating to most wage-and-hour and discrimination laws, and issues under Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and immigration laws. Recently, however, the criteria for how an employer classifies its workers has become the subject of hotly-contested litigation.