Contingent Staffing
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CareerBuilder: More Employers to Use Temps
Four in ten employers plan to bring in temporary and contract workers next year, up from 36 percent in last year’s survey and 34 percent in the survey from two years ago.
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Workers Take Aim at Walmart With Strikes
Walmart Stores Inc. workers are beginning strike actions in a lead-up to Black Friday (the shopping day after Thanksgiving) citing company attempts to squelch efforts by workers speaking out for better jobs.
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Creating a New Contingent Culture
Why giving free agents an 'arms-length embrace' is the way forward.
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Four Common Myths About Temporary Workers and Contractors
In July 2010, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settled a race and sex discrimination case against a Cleveland-area temporary agency.
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Why Now for the ‘Free-Agent Nation’?
Using temporary workers at the start of a recovery is nothing new. But other factors behind the contingent expansion are less tied to the business cycle. These include cost-savings.
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Working With Contingents
You can have the best, brightest and most flexible workforce if you consider these suggestions for working with contingents. These tips will help you become a “nonemployer of choice.”
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Staffing Firms Kelly, Temp Holdings Announce Joint Venture
The joint venture will be based in Hong Kong, and the agreement calls for Temp Holdings' Tempstaff Hong Kong operation to change its name to TS Kelly Workforce Solutions effective in October.
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Indianapolis Law Aims to Curb Temp 'Blacklisting'
The rule prohibits hotels from signing deals with contractors—such as staffing firms—that prevent the hotels from hiring the contractor's employees directly, according to city documents.
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CareerBuilder: Expect More Temps on the Job
A new survey by the job board giant sees a spike in temporary hires but also found that employers plan to hire more permanent, full-time employees.
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Robert Crouch to Lead Adecco's North America Operations
The former CFO of Adecco acquisition MPS played a key role, turning it into a company with revenue of $2.2 billion in 2008. Prior to MPS, Crouch began his career at Arthur Andersen.
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Contingent Workers Settle Suit in California
The court was notified of the settlement last month, but the suit was first filed in July 2011. It sought to represent all contingent employees who worked at both PrO and Juniper in California.
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Official Sentenced for Staffing Firm Bribes
Bribe payments were calculated by multiplying the total number of hours worked by temporary employees at a firm by 25 cents.
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Contingent Workers to Make Up Bulk of New Staff at Auto Plant
Volkswagen Group of America plans to create 800 new jobs at its Chattanooga, Tenn., manufacturing facility, the company announced. Many of those new jobs will go to contingent workers at the facility who are now employed by Aerotek, opening up opportunities for new contingents.
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Independent Contractors Helping to Shape the New World of Work
Of 530 recently surveyed independent consultants, more than 80 percent expressed satisfaction with their employment status, although 27 percent admitted that, given the chance, they would return to a full-time job.
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Move to Flexible Workforce Is Permanent, Consultants Say
The online M Squared poll of independent consultants was conducted in December 2011 and included responses from 530 professional independent consultants.
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Recruit Co. Lands Staffing Firm for $410 Million
It marks the latest large-scale acquisition for Tokyo-based Recruit, and will result in Advantage Resourcing divesting most of its non-Japanese operations.
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Staffing Executive Convicted for Not Paying $15 Million
money from the firms was used to buy homes and a yacht for Harrison as well as to finance commercial motion pictures including 'National Lampoon's Pucked' and 'Home of the Giants,' the U.S. Attorney's Office reported.
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Survey: Crowd Sourcing a Second Job for Many
Crowd sourcing can involve breaking up a large task such as validating data or translation into many small tasks and farming them out to numerous workers online instead of hiring a single worker or small number of workers to do the single large task.
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Majority of Workers to Be Independent By 2020
Independent workers include those on fixed-term contracts, independent consultants, those working through temporary agencies, workers on an on-call arrangement and those who own a business with less than five employees.
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Today's Workforce—Pressed and Stressed
While politicians and pundits fret about unemployment and underemployment rates, growing numbers of employees are under pressure to do more. The resulting “work-more economy” threatens not just workers' sanity but companies' long-term success.
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Blockbuster Settles Sex Harassment, Retaliation Suit for $2 Million
The alleged incidents took place in 2004 and 2005, according to the EEOC. They involved seven female temporary employees, four of whom are Hispanic.
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Caterpillar Sees Climb in Flex, Full-Time Workers
Full-time, traditional employment at Caterpillar rose 18.7 percent to 121,513 workers at the end of the third quarter.
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Hudson Reorganizes, Names New Officers
The consulting firm also named Tracy Noon as chief people officer and Steve Zales as chief knowledge officer.
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Special Report on Contingent Staffing: Flexibility Reigning
As the U.S. unemployment rate hovers around 9 percent, the contingent staffing market is booming with a half-million jobs added over a 12-month period.
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Successful Staffing Strategies
Staffing firms and corporate human resources executives offer their best practices on developing a contingent labor strategy.
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Contingent Labor Contracts: Do It Right, Save Millions; Do It Wrong, Spend Millions
As the labor market becomes more global, contingent workforces will become even more strategic to an organization’s operations, thereby driving increased flexibility and the need for proactive management and automation.
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Should You Hire a Tech Manager?
Expert points out that HR generalists and recruitment professionals don't have the time to stay abreast of all of the tools, to learn technologies and the use of different systems and tools.
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Staffing Firm Randstad Announces Plan to Buy SFN Group
Based on 2010 revenue of both firms, the deal would make Randstad the second-largest information technology staffing provider in the U.S. It could also become the second-largest provider of office clerical staffing.
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Minimizing Contingent Worker Risks
Choose the staffing agencies that supply your workers carefully, and make sure your contract with them protects you from legal liability.
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More Employers Take on Temps, but Planning Is Paramount
Some companies aren’t waiting for the government to be their guide on this journey. They use a stringent vetting process where workers must answer questions that go beyond what the government requires.
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Companies Focus Their Attention on Flexibility
To limit contingent staffing, some companies are making permanent employees more agile.
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Recruitment Process Outsourcing Is the Wave of the Present
Now that the economy is beginning to pick up and companies are in a position to hire, RPO providers are bounding up to the plate wielding a heavy bat.
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Caterpillar Doubles Its Flexible Workforce
The Peoria, Illinois-based maker of heavy equipment saw its full-time workforce rise by 11.4 percent in 2010 to 104,490.
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Report Notes There Are 9 Million Temps Worldwide
The estimated 2009 revenue for the global staffing industry was $283.1 billion, according to the report.
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PEO Firm Administaff Buys Software Line
OrgPlus software assists in the creation of detailed organization charts that can help companies better understand their organization structure, increase productivity and more easily plan for change, according to Administaff.
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What Employers Should Know About Hiring Independent Contractors
Employers can protect themselves from legal liability arising out of the hiring of independent contractors by adhering to some guidelines.
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Labor Department Sues Houston-Based Staffing Firm
The lawsuit also seeks to permanently bar the defendants from serving in a fiduciary capacity in any plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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Staffing Firm Volt Target of SEC Probe
Volt is presently in the process of restating financial statements because of errors that affected the timing of recognition of revenue.
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FedEx to Pay $2.3 Million Over Independent Contractors
The settlement follows a yearlong investigation by Montana that found FedEx Ground drivers are employees, not independent contractors, and that FedEx owed unemployment taxes, penalties and interest, according to the attorney general’s office.
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Appeals Court Rules Against Independent Contractor
Employers are advised to carefully evaluate applicable legal standards to determine whether a particular worker is an independent contractor or employee.
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Software Firms Riding Contingent Staffing Wave
Many software companies that provide vendor management systems for tracking contingent labor are reporting record sales.
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Who'll Have the Last Laugh?
The new NBC sitcom Outsourced tackles the touchy subject of sending jobs to India.
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Staffing Firms Still Getting Work Despite Push for Federal Insourcing
Citing the rise in federal contract spending to more than $500 billion in 2008, the Obama administration issued a memorandum to all federal executive departments and agencies in March 2009.
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Contract Staffing Under Scrutiny
With hiring limited to temporary and contract positions, recruiters are still sidelined. But the trend may be short-lived.
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Hewitt Deal Boosts Aons Benefits Consulting, Outsourcing
Aon says it expects to close the acquisition, which is subject to approval by federal antitrust regulators, in November. The deal will bring Aon, the world’s second-largest insurance broker, increased strength as a benefits consultant.
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ADP Announces Deal to Acquire Workscape
Marlborough, Massachusetts-based Workscape serves more than 3.5 million users in more than 180 companies, according to ADP.
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Workers Comp Claimant Cannot Sue Third Party and Administrator
State appellate court cites the workers’ compensation exclusive remedy provision in upholding a lower court’s dismissal of an injured correctional officer’s lawsuit.
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Survey 21 Percent of Job Seekers Dropped After Reference Checks
OfficeTeam’s survey included telephone interviews with more than 1,000 senior managers at companies with 20 or more employees.
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KKR Paying $356 Million for Japanese Staffing Firm
The Usen subsidiary, Intelligence Ltd., provides direct hire, temporary staffing and outsourcing as well as job-search advertising.
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Groups Sue Feds Over Anti-Staffing Rule
In January, a document called the Neufeld Memo reversed previous USCIS policy and determined that IT staffing firms are not ‘U.S. employers’ allegedly because they don’t exercise control over their consultants.
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Employment Agency Owners in Georgia Indicted
The employment agencies—New Fuzhou, Zhong Mei and Lucky—allegedly placed the workers in mainly restaurant jobs in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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Governor of Hawaii Signs Law Regulating PEOs
Hawaiian professional employer organizations must now register annually with the state and show compliance with labor laws as well as post a $250,000 bond.
