Is section 2750.5 of the California Business and Professions Code applicable to workers' compensation cases?

In the second case, Fillmore v. Irvine (1983) 146 Cal.App.3d 649, 657, 194 Cal.Rptr. 319, the court also by way of dictum stated that section 2750.5 was applicable to workers' compensation cases. In that case, an unlicensed worker sought to recover on a contract for services, and the defendants claimed that the action was barred by Business and Professions Code section 7031 which precludes action by an unlicensed contractor to collect the agreed compensation or to foreclose a mechanics lien. The case held that the penultimate paragraph was not applicable to such cases. The court reasoned in part that to apply the penultimate paragraph to determine that the worker was an employee rather than a contractor would work an implied repeal of section 7031.