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Q – Do All Construction Truck Operators Have to Comply?

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New Tax, Registration, Regulations For Public Works Contractors

California’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) recently announced that they are establishing a new public works program to replace the Compliance Monitoring Unit and Labor Compliance Program requirements for bond-funded and other public works projects. The legislation became effective July 1st, of this year, it launched a new set of regulations for public works contractors and subcontractors, using the DIR’s new online application, and a new tax disguised as a fee of $300, “effective this year” and paid “thereafter.” Read more

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ANALYSIS: State Courts and Labor Movement In Lock-step

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By Pat Whalen, Legal Counsel to CCTA

A number of recent state law changes (legislation) and court cases in Sacramento have increased the potential exposure of trucking companies to liability for wage and hour claims, employee payment forms, and misclassifications of independent contractors. Read more

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Reaching a Tipping Point

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Employers in California are increasingly coming under attack on just about all fronts; taxes, energy costs, and growing employment liability of mammoth proportions. On the page across (CTN Aug 2014), Pat Whalen, who is part of our legal counsel team drafted a memo to our employer members that I hope all of you take the time and read. There are so many seemingly bad court decisions (in both state and federal court) and new regulations coming out of Sacramento that will have a very challenging effect on our employer members that one has to wonder when the end will come for small businesses here. Read more

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Where Will All the Truckers Go?

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Here we are, embroiled in CARB’s late rule changes that have done nothing but to confuse and really aggravate many including me.

I was hoping for the loan denial option to really help some of our folks that have not recovered from the great recession. Ha-ha! What a joke!! It’s going to be almost impossible to jump through the many hoops that CARB has mandated for this extension. Read more