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* DC - Obama Signs Military CDL Act Into Law
Washington,DC,USA -Transport Topics -23 Oct 2012: -- President Obama signed the Military Commercial Driver’s License Act of 2012 into law, which allows states to more easily issue commercial driver licenses to members of the armed forces... The law permits states to issue a CDL to members of the armed forces in the state in which they are stationed, even if they are away from home... In addition to allowing military members to apply in the states where they serve, the law allows the Department of Defense to work with states to issue CDLs itself... That provision is meant to take advantage of the training that some members of the military receive driving heavy vehicles...
* New Jersey - Law would force businesses to classify truck drivers as employees
Trenton,NJ,USA -Fleet Owner, by Deborah Whistler -Oct. 24, 2012: -- A New Jersey Assembly panel recently advanced a bill that would prevent trucking companies from misclassifying their employees as contractors in order to avoid paying payroll taxes, according to a New Jersey Today report... Under the bill, trucking services performed by an individual in drayage trucking or parcel delivery trucking industries for pay would be considered an employee, unless, and until it is shown to the satisfaction of the Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development, that:
* The individual has been and will continue to be free from control or direction over the performance of that service, both under his contract of service and in fact;
* The service is either outside the usual course of the business for which the service is performed, or the service is performed outside of all the places of business of the employer for which the service is performed; and
* The individual is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business...
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