Workers’ Comp Executive featured RPNA’s recent win for 63 farm labor contractors, ensuring they can continue to self-insure their workers’ compensation. The article highlights how this final DIR decision ends a year-long fight which began when OSIP moved to “revoke the companies’ certificates to self-insure claiming it was required to so under the terms of Labor Code Section 3701.9 enacted by SB 863.” These terms barred OSIP from issuing certificates to professional employer organizations, temporary services employers and leasing employers. The article highlights how the OSIP “overstepped its authority by failing to prove the companies were, in fact, doing what it accused them of doing—providing workers to other employers.”
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