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Misclassification of Port Drivers * USA - California Attorney General Brown's Crackdown on
Teamsters Applaud Brown Launches Lawsuits Targeting Suspect Trucking Companies
Washington,DC,USA -MarketWatch -Sept 05, 2008: -- The Teamsters Union applauds California Attorney General Jerry Brown for filing of lawsuits today against trucking companies that service the Ports of LA and Long Beach and engage in the misclassification of port truck drivers to circumvent state employment taxes and deny the workers their basic rights and protections as employees, including disability and worker's compensation... Two lawsuits, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, are the first round of what Brown has pledged to be a series of similar suits against trucking companies that have allegedly gained an unfair advantage over competitors in the industry by treating their haulers as "independent contractors" instead of employees... A recent study by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research found that only 9 percent of the 16,800 drivers that work out of the Ports of LA and Long Beach are directly employed by a trucking company. Nearly 88 percent are called independent contractors, but are often denied the freedom to haul for more than one company. Truly independent contractors might be expected to have multiple clients, however, five out of six drivers only work for one trucking company at a time (84 percent), Greenberg found...
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