| --- |
| pretty_name: "State Worker Classification Tests — Independent Contractor vs Employee" |
| license: other |
| license_name: source-terms-cited |
| license_link: https://referencesource.org/state-worker-classification-tests/ |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - reference-data |
| - provenance |
| - referencesource-org |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: data/records.jsonl |
| --- |
| # State Worker Classification Tests — Independent Contractor vs Employee |
|
|
| **Canonical, always-current version: https://referencesource.org/state-worker-classification-tests/** |
| Machine-readable: https://referencesource.org/state-worker-classification-tests/data.json — this mirror is a point-in-time copy. |
|
|
| - **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 |
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| 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. |
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| ## Provenance — what every record carries |
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|
| 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 |
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| public-law |
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| 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 |
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| - https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=LAB§ionNum=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/ |
| |
