* California - Premium Transportation port trucking firm files bankruptcy
-- The Rancho Dominguez trucking company, which is also known as Total Transportation Services, lost 11 claims brought before the California Labor Commission regarding independent contractors who said they should be classified as employees, as well as another 14 lawsuits regarding misclassification, according to the filing in Delaware bankruptcy court. Those losses cost the company $4 million or more... Premium Transportation serves the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Traditionally, companies like Premium work with truckers who are considered independent contractors, leasing or buying their own trucks... Independent contractors generally lack the overtime, worker's compensation coverage and other workplace benefits that employees receive... Port truckers are increasingly working with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union to argue that they should be classified as employees, not contractors. They have scored a series of recent wins... The company said it has 22 direct employees, and another 74 workers are employed by an affiliate company, Traffic Sales Consulting Inc. ... Premium has 140 independent operators, or contractors...
(Photo: The port of Long Beach, California) -- Los Angeles, CAL, USA - The Los Angeles Times, by Shan Li - 17 March 2016Labels: trucking bankruptcy
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