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56 Santa Clara L. Rev. 677 (2016)
The Misclassification of Employees and California's Latest Confusion regarding Who is an Employee or an Independent Contractor

handle is hein.journals/saclr56 and id is 711 raw text is: THE MISCLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND CALIFORNIA'S LATEST CONFUSION REGARDING WHO IS AN EMPLOYEE OR AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR. Peter Tran* TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ................................................................... 678 I.B ackground ................................................................. 680 A. Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors .................................................... 680 B. The Common Law Definition of Employee under B orello ................................................. 682 C. The Federal Definition of Employee ............. 685 D. The California Industrial Wage Commission686 1. The California Industrial Wage Commission's Wage Orders ..................... 687 2. Enforcement of the California Industrial Wage Commission's Wage Orders ........... 688 E. The Dynamex Decision ................................. 688 1. M artinez v. Combs .................................... 689 2. Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior C ourt ......................................................... 691 3. Ayala v. Antelope Valley Newspapers, Inc ............................................................. 69 1 II.Identification of Legal Problem ................................. 692 III.A nalysis .................................................................... 692 A. The Borello Test ............................................ 695 B. The Martinez/IWC Test ................................ 696 1. Control Test .............................................. 696 2. To suffer or permit to work ...................... 698 3. To engage, thereby creating a common law employment relationship ........................ 698 IV .Proposal .................................................................... 699 A. Both Borello and Martinez/IWC Tests Should be Combined Together to Form the Dominant Control Test. ................................................ 699 * J.D. 2016, Santa Clara University School of Law.

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