TTHtr ARIZONA SGENtr

By FRANK DA executive vice president

T HE association office recently

I requested Frank Kelley, Speaker of the Arizona House, and Burton Barr, the Majority Leader, for an interim study committee to be appointed to study Workmen s Compensation rates in Arizona.

ALBSA members, in the lumber yard category, are assigned codes 8232 for outside employees and 8058 for inside employees. At the present time under code 8232 the rate is 9.85 per $100 of wages and Arizona ranks highest in cost in the 50 states.

The Industrial Commission has now requested another rate hike of around 15%.

Workmen's Compensation is a high expense item for our members. The study committee will look over the entire WC program and hopefully will introduce leeislation in the 1978 ses-