Compliance & Risk Management

The Affordable Care Act and its employer provisions can be complicated and difficult to explain concisely. Therefore, ASA has created a sample letter to clients that companies can use as a printed direct-mail piece. Firms can incorporate their own brand and include the ASA Statement of Principles. Or, use any part of the letter’s language for other platforms, including emails, websites, sales presentations, and social media. Companies can incorporate their brand and post “an open letter to clients regarding ACA compliance” on their websites. Use the sample letter in whatever form works best for your firm. More ›

This slide deck contains all the ACA-related information—succinctly and strategically communicated—that is most important to clients. More ›

While implementing the ACA presents challenges to staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions firms, the industry is committed to compliance with the law. To that end, ASA members commit to these principles. More ›

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Staffing firms and employees benefit from fewer workplace hazards and exposures, as well as fewer worker injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. Moreover, worker satisfaction, productivity, collaboration, recruitment, and retention all increase dramatically when employers promote and ensure safe and healthy work environments. The Employee Safety Best Practices and Operating Information documents pertain to: Staffing firms’ general… More ›

Opportunities for staffing firms to secure work from the federal government—how it works, plus resources to get started. From the members of ASA. More ›

This table sets forth record retention requirements under some of the major federal employment and employment-related laws. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of record-keeping requirements. Federal laws that are not discussed here, or applicable state laws, may have different requirements. Therefore, ASA urges that staffing professionals seek the advice of legal counsel concerning the retention of employment records. More ›

Nurse staffing firms play a critical role in the nation’s health care system by quickly and efficiently supplying hundreds of thousands of health care workers in a wide range of skill categories on an as-needed basis. Registered and Licensed Practical Nurses and Certified Nursing Assistants are among the professionals whom nurse staffing firms employ and assign. More ›

The first authoritative, professional template for firms that provide recruiting, search, and placement services to use as a model in preparing client agreements. The model offers recruiting firms a basic agreement plus extensive optional provisions—along with detailed explanations as to their purpose and use—to afford great flexibility in tailoring the documents to particular client circumstances. More ›