We have set up a twitter account for Texas Cotton Ginners Association! Follow us @GinnersTexas. In additional to our normal email distribution, we will be sending out newsletters and alerts through this media going forward. Aaron and I are only marginally familiar with Twitter, so please be patient with us as we work through the [...]
Judging from the number of phone calls we have received at TCGA, many of you are receiving letters from the Social Security Administration (SSA) notifying you that there was a mis-match between the information submitted by your company and the records at the SSA. This letter also suggests that you log into the SSA business [...]
We have received detailed guidance related to the Social Security mismatch letters that the gins have been receiving from the Social Security Administration (SSA). Click Here to view an excellent opinion piece about how to respond, courtesy of the Saqui Law Group, a division of Dowling Aaron. From my reading of the piece, they make [...]
We have received reports that the Social Security Administration is sending out mismatch letters to employers throughout the United States. Several of our members are receiving these letters. We are in the process of determining the best method of responding to these letters. Please forward a copy of the letter to us if you receive [...]
As a reminder, the deadline for the OSHA electronic reporting rule is coming up quickly! Cotton gins are required to submit the data from their 2018 OSHA 300A forms by March 2 2019. Click Here for the link to the electronic reporting site, or you can go to the TCGA Web Site to find the [...]
The deadline for the OSHA electronic reporting rule is just over two weeks out. Cotton gins are required to submit the data from their 2018 OSHA 300A forms by March 2 2019. Click Here for the link to the electronic reporting site, or you can go to the TCGA Web Site to find the link. [...]
Employers are reminded of their obligation to post a copy of OSHA's Form 300A, which summarizes job-related injuries and illnesses logged during the 2018 calendar year. Each year, from Feb. 1 to April 30, the summary from the previous year must be displayed in a common area where notices to employees are usually posted. Be [...]
TCGA has recently become aware of an issue related to the registration of tandem trailers being used to haul round modules. Some of our round module haulers have been pulled over by Troopers and told that their rear trailer cannot be registered as a Token Trailer. Texas law specifies that a semitrailer can be registered [...]
We have received a few calls from ginners who were having trouble getting their FDA registration renewal completed. This is an online system, so you do have to have your user name and password to get into their system. To get to the renewal system, you first have to check the Food Facility Registration Box, [...]
Attention Required - Mismatched PBI Tags and AMS Sample Coupons Instances of mismatched PBI tags and sample coupons continue, despite an extensive communications effort conducted during the 2017 ginning season and again before the 2018 ginning season by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Cotton and Tobacco Program, the National Cotton Council and others. Significant [...]
