Law & Advocacy

The U.S. Small Business Administration has published in the Federal Register a rule increasing the small business size standard for 37 industries in the North American Industry Classification System after its study of those industries. Temporary help services had its size standard increased to $25.5 million in annual revenue, from its current level of $13.5 million. The new rule goes into effect Jan. 7. More ›

The Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce Development has informed ASA that it will be sending a revised Renewal Application for Service Agency Registration to staffing firms that do business in the state. The revised application, which will replace the renewal application that firms may have received recently from the department, was necessitated by a clerical error that would have resulted in certain firms being led to incorrectly believe, pursuant to the questions they answered on the application, that they had to become licensed rather than registered. More ›

At the behest of the American Staffing Association, HR Policy Association, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other business groups, as well as Fortune 500 companies, the Society for Human Resource Management has withdrawn its proposed American National Standards Institute guidelines that would have required publicly traded companies to disclose confidential human resource metrics, including expenses incurred in connection with the use of temporary workers. According to SHRM, the metrics were designed to provide human resource information to investors to assist them in their investment decisions. More ›