Lawmakers Propose Prepaid Debit Cards for TD, Crackdown on Drayage Misclassification

California’s largest workers’ compensation carriers could launch a pilot project to evaluate the use of prepaid debit cards for temporary disability benefits, under recently introduced legislation. Another recently amended bill would hold customers jointly liable for future labor law violations when they contract with port trucking companies that have failed to make court-ordered payments following a verdict that they intentionally misclassified its drivers. Sen. Richard Pan on Monday amended a bill that originally included nonsubstantive changes to the Labor Code to propose...