UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal
Abstract
California Labor Code section 2855 applies a seven-year limit to the enforceability of personal service contracts. This note discusses section 2855 as it applies to the unique contractual practices of the entertainment industry, particularly the industry's use of mid-term contractual extensions and agreements. The author analyzes the courts' application of section 2855 in two representative cases and concludes that greater statutory guidance is needed in order for the courts to better interpret section 2855. The author suggests that an interpretive provision be added to section 2855 to create a "rebuttable presumption" that a personal service contract which is renegotiated mid-term is not a new contract, and is therefore subject to the seven-year limitation based upon the date of the original contract.
Recommended Citation
Jonathan Blaufarb,
The Seven-Year Itch: California Labor Code Section 2855,
6 UC Law SF Comm. & Ent. L.J. 653
(1984).
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