Free the Oppressed Allstate Insurance Agents!
American companies have made an art form out of cutting employee salaries while making them work longer and harder. Insurers are not immune. A recent survey by Claims magazine showed that “stunted wages, heftier workloads and shriveling benefits” continue to plague its members. But occasionally these Les Miserables mount the barricades and revolt. That’s what’s happening at venerable Allstate Corp., where the normally good-natured good-hands insurance agents are taking on the country’s largest publicly traded home insurer. The National Association of Professional Allstate Agents has published and distributed a petition to the Internal Revenue Service questioning whether Allstate lived up to its side of the bargain since it converted the majority of its sales force from employee to independent contractor…
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