Borrowing Gas Taxes to Close the Budget Gap is Fiscally Reckless
from Jim Earp, Executive Director of the CA Alliance for Jobs, and Mark Watts, Executive Director of Transportation California.
With a budget deficit of $24 billion, we face the very real possibility that legislators will once-again look to borrow, shift or outright raid Prop 42 gas tax dollars that the voters have repeatedly said they want to fund transportation improvements.
Oakland Contractor Arrested for Wage Theft, Insurance Fraud
The owner and two employees of an Oakland Construction Company, NBC General Contractors Inc., have been charged with wage theft and insurance fraud for allegedly defrauding workers, the state and their workers comp insurance carrier out of millions of dollars, authorities said. (May 26, 2009)
SACRAMENTO UPDATE - Budget Crisis – Again
from Kevin Pedrotti, Legislative Advocate for the Golden State Builders Exchanges
The Legislature and Governor passed the 2009-10 budget in February 2009, the earliest adoption of a budget in modern history. About $6 billion of the budget solutions were premised on success in the May Special Election. That’s out the window. And the continuing bad economic news since February has also increased the size of the problem.
State Supreme Court Protects Workers’ Comp Reforms
from the California Chamber of Commerce Alert Newsletter, May 2009
The California Supreme Court has denied review of a workers’ compensation case, thereby helping to solidify the 2004 California Chamber of Commerce-supported workers’ compensation reforms. The Supreme Court’s rejection of the petition for review in effect affirms a California court of appeals ruling that upheld the Legislature’s intent of containing costs through the passage of the CalChamber-supported workers’ compensation reforms in SB 899 (Poochigian; R-Fresno, 2004).
AB 1532 Passes: Sales Tax Relief on Fixed Price Contracts
- from Kevin Pedrotti, Legislative Advocate for the Golden SDtate Builders Exchanges
AB 1523 recently passed unanimously by the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee this afternoon. However this is only a first step.
When Do You Have to Pay Travel Time?
By Larry Levy, Employee Relations Management
The following information applies only to non-exempt employees and not exempt employees. Non-exempt employees are your employees who provide your services and products and are compensated by their hours of work. If they work over eight hours in a day or over forty hours in a week they receive overtime.
SACRAMENTO UPDATE - April 23
from Kevin J Pedrotti, Legislative Advocate for the Golden State Builders Exchanges
Legislation
The Coming Workers’ Compensation Nightmare For Construction Trades: the New “Dual Wage” Regulation
By Gregory Osorio, ARM, Osorio Insurance Agency
There is a problem lurking for many contractors, it became effective January 1, 2008 and is only now beginning to manifest itself in premium audits for Workers’ Compensation policies renewing January 1, 2009 and thereafter. It is a problem that few insurance companies or insurance brokers have notified their clients abo