Hunton Employment & Labor Perspectives

A lawsuit recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California is testing the constitutional limits of California’s worker classification law. In the suit entitled Blu Nail Bar, Inc et al v. Newsom et al, a group of Vietnamese American-owned nail salons in Southern California are suing the state, alleging that the application of Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5) violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.