{"id":17873,"date":"2025-10-22T14:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17873\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:29:07","slug":"california-manicurists-drop-independent-contractor-law-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17873\/","title":{"rendered":"California Manicurists Drop Independent Contractor Law Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of manicurists and nail salons in California dropped their lawsuit challenging a state law that banned certain workers from being classified as independent contractors.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2014which claimed the law illegally targeted Vietnamese women who disproportionately made up the workforce of nail technicians\u2014filed a notice Tuesday to dismiss their suit in the US District Court for the Central District of California. <\/p>\n<p>Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) Oct. 3 signed a law that allowed California manicurists to regain their right to be classified as independent contractors for now, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/BluNailBarIncetalvGavinNewsometalDocketNo825cv01184CDCalMay312025\/1?doc_id=X2LBB4HGBET8PSRC9AAN3UFDM7P\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joint status report<\/a>Vietnamese Americans make up 82% of all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A group of manicurists and nail salons in California dropped their lawsuit challenging a state law that banned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,15257,14535,15256],"class_list":["post-17873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-employment-discrimination","tag-independent-contractors","tag-notice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}