* California - L.A. port truckers win again, misclassified as independent contractors
-- The underpaid, exploited port truck drivers at the nation's largest cargo terminal, Los Angeles-Long Beach, have won another round in their long fight for fair pay, job protections and the right to organize... That's because California state Labor Commissioner Julie Su ruled in December that one of the big port trucking firms at Los Angeles-Long Beach, Pacific 9, misclassified its 38 drivers as "independent contractors" under labor law. They should be "employees," she said... Because they really are employees, Pacific 9 owes them $7 million in back pay, Su ruled. It also must now pay workers comp, payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security, and unemployment insurance for them - all costs it had avoided by misclassifying the truckers...
Los Angeles, CAL, USA - People's World, by MARK GRUENBERG - December 31 2015 Labels: solutions to complains
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