Hearing Scheduled on Employer Reporting Bill

The California Assembly Insurance Committee will hear public testimony on a controversial measure that aims to crack down on businesses that fail to report all their employees when purchasing workers' compensation coverage in the first week that lawmakers return to Sacramento for the second year of the current legislative session.Assembly Bill 1138, by Ed Chau, D-Alhambra, would require an employer to submit to its workers' compensation carrier the same wage data that is contained in annual, quarterly and reconciliation reports filed with the Employment Development Department. The bill...