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Misclassification Lawsuit Filed by NJ Attorney General

Workers' Compensation

It also seeks damages for the companies’ alleged improper deductions from drivers’ pay. to resolve a prior NJDOL audit finding it failed to make required contributions to the Unemployment Compensation and Disability Benefits Funds from 2015 through 2018. In August 2020, XPO paid the State $893,671.28

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Are wages or salary fully covered by workers’ compensation insurance?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

It is hard work with long hours some weeks but with the straight-time pay rate at about $50.00 per hour, bonuses, overtime pay, stock options, and some great fringe benefits (including tuition reimbursement for her master’s degree now underway two nights per week), Marion is enjoying the career she always wanted. Burton, Jr.,