House Committee: DWC Should Study Non-Subscription, Uncovered Employees

A Texas legislative committee assigned to evaluate how well the state's voluntary workers' comp system meets the needs of employers and employees says it didn't have enough information to perform that task. In a separate interim charge addressed in the report, the House committee also examined the issue of worker misclassification. About two-thirds of the state’s private employers are subscribers to the workers' comp system, according to the DWC’s biennial report released in December. They employ about 80% of the state’s workers. The remaining third of emplo...