EXCERPT

California Workers’ Compensation Uniform Statistical Reporting Plan—1995
Effective September 1, 2023

Part 3, Standard Classification System, Section III, General Classification Procedures, Rule 4, Standard Exceptions 

4. Standard Exceptions

a. Classification 8810, Clerical Office Employees, and 8871, Clerical Telecommuter Employees

Clerical Office Employee(s) and Clerical Telecommuter Employee(s) are defined as employees whose duties are confined to keeping the books, records or cash of the employer; conducting correspondence; using computers; dispatching; recording weights; or who are engaged wholly in general office work or office drafting, having no regular duty of a non-clerical nature in the service of the employer. Except as otherwise provided in this Rule, the entire payroll of any employee who is engaged in operations performed by Clerical Office Employees or Clerical Telecommuter Employees and also is exposed (1) to any operative hazard of the business or (2) to any outside selling or collecting work, shall be assigned to the highest rated classification of work to which the employee is so exposed. Supervisors and clerks, such as time, stock or tally clerks, whose work is (1) necessary to, (2) performed in connection with, or (3) related to any operations of the business other than clerical office operations, shall not be classified as Clerical Office Employees or Clerical Telecommuter Employees.  

Classification 8810, Clerical Office Employees, shall be applied only to the payroll of persons herein described who work exclusively in areas that are separated from all other work places of the employer by buildings, floors, partitions, railings or counters and within which no work is performed other than clerical office or drafting duties as defined in this Rule, or who engage in such work at any of their employer’s office locations 50% or more of their time and devote the balance of their time to clerical office or drafting duties at their home or other office space away from any location of their employer. 

Classification 8871, Clerical Telecommuter Employees, shall be applied only to the payroll of persons herein described who work more than 50% of their time at their home or other office space away from any location of their employer, and devote the balance of their time to clerical office or drafting duties at any of their employer’s locations in areas that are separated from all other work places of the employer by buildings, floors, partitions, railings or counters and within which no work is performed other than clerical office or drafting duties as defined in this Rule.