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    California janitors may get labor law protections in wake of federal court decision

    by Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times May 02, 2019 3 minutes

    In a decision opening yet another front in the battle over how to classify workers, a federal appeals court Thursday ruled that an international franchiser could be forced to treat its California janitors as employees rather than independent contractors.

    The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the California Supreme Court's landmark 2018 Dynamex decision, which makes it harder for businesses to classify their workers as independent contractors, applies retroactively to a class-action case against

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