News / Unions and trucking firms in legal battle over owner-driver status in California

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The battle over the status of truck owner-operators in California is in limbo, after a court order shielded truckers, temporarily, from new state legislation introduced on 1 January.  

US trucking firms gained the last?minute reprieve from the controversial Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) on 31 December, when a US District Court judge in the state issued a restraining order exempting the trucking industry from the law until the next court hearing on the issue. 

The bill casts doubt on the status of tens ...