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pretty_name: "State Worker Classification Tests — Independent Contractor vs Employee"
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# State Worker Classification Tests — Independent Contractor vs Employee

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- **Last verified:** 2026-08-18
- **Stale after:** 2027-08-18 (past this date, prefer the canonical copy —
  it re-verifies on a cadence this snapshot does not)
- **Records:** 10

Which legal test each U.S. state uses to distinguish employees from independent contractors (ABC test, common law/right-to-control, or modified ABC), the statutory citation, key exemptions by industry or occupation, and the date the current test took effect.

## Provenance — what every record carries

Every record carries `source` (the URL the value was read from) and
`source_quote` (a verbatim quote from that page stating it). A value you
cannot check against its page is indistinguishable from an invented one;
these can all be checked. Each record is also individually addressable on
the canonical site at its `url`.

## Licence position

public-law

Facts are not copyrightable; what this dataset takes from each source is a
fact plus a short attributed quote linking back to the page that states it.

## Sources

- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=LAB&sectionNum=2775.
- https://delcode.delaware.gov/title19/c033/sc01/index.html
- http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0400-0499/0443/Sections/0443.1216.html
- https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2434&ChapterID=68
- https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXXI/Chapter149/Section148B
- https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/181.723
- https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-608.html
- https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-4141.01
- https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title40.1/section40.1-28.7:7/
- https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=50.04.140

## Fields

See any record in `data/records.jsonl` — field names are self-describing,
and the canonical page for each record renders them with labels:
https://referencesource.org/state-worker-classification-tests/