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Spring 2023 Vol 30, No. 2
FMCSA issued a notice requesting comments on proposed changes to the CSA system, rejecting the National Academy of Sciences’ IRT statistical model and instead proposing significant changes to the current SMS. According to the FMCSA, the proposed changes will allow the agency to better target the least safe motor carriers in the industry.
The FMCSA proposed reorganized BASICs, consolidating violations, updated severity weights, proportionate percentiles, adjusting intervention thresholds, and an updated utilization factor. The FMCSA did not propose any changes to the SMS to address geographic enforcement disparity.
More from Scopelitis on the details of each of these changes and how the proposed changes to the SMS could have a significant impact on the way motor carriers are evaluated.
Spotlight: Scopelitis Workers’ Compensation Practice
by Carla R. Hounshel, Mary Beth Hughes, Margaret M. Krei, Andrew F. Marquis, Michael McFarlane, Victor P. Shane, Michael J. Tauscher, Timothy W. Wiseman,
Dispatches: Industry News & Trends
by Martin W. O’Connor, Prasad Sharma, Kevin M. Phillips, Ronald J. Morelock, Andrew J. Butcher,
Winter 2023 Vol 30, No. 1
The DOL issued a proposed rule on worker status under the FLSA. In the Proposed Rule, the DOL formally rescinds the prior rule promulgated in 2021 under the Trump Administration; and replaces it with a multifactor economic realities test that tilts in favor of finding employee status under the FLSA when compared to the 2021 rule and even the legal status quo prior to the 2021 rule. The public comment period for the Proposed Rule closed on December 13, 2022. The real work for the DOL now begins.
Spotlight on The Scopelitis Workplace & Data Privacy Practice
by Prasad Sharma, Charles Andrewscavage, Andrew J. Butcher, Alaina C. Hawley, Dylan C. Goetsch,
Summer 2022 Vol 29, No. 2
On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court refused the California Trucking Association’s (CTA) appeal to maintain an injunction prohibiting enforcement of California’s AB 5.
Winter 2022 Vol 29, No. 1
Despite widespread reports of burgeoning state coffers, the efforts of many states to disgorge businesses of funds - including accounts receivable, credit memos, and uncashed checks - that may be cast as “unclaimed property” have continued unabated into 2022.
Spotlight on Cargo Claim Practice
by Thomas Gonzalez, Kathleen C. Jeffries, Clifford W. Lauchlan,
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