Complying With OSHA’s Covid-19 Health Care Emergency Temporary Standard

By Anthony Sbardellati, Esq. In Walters v. Professional Labor Group LLC, 120 F. Fourth 546 (Seventh Cir. 2024), the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that employers are required to compensate their employees for time spent traveling between their homes and the location of their travel assignments when (1) the employees will remain at the… More ›

The Federal Arbitration Act strongly favors arbitration and acts as a federal mandate requiring state and federal courts to do the same. However, an exception in Section 1 of the FAA circumvents arbitration clauses in “contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.” What… More ›

The California legislature has introduced two bills that, if enacted, will significantly change how employment claims are resolved under the state’s Private Attorneys General Act and create major new incentives for staffing companies to focus on compliance to reduce their exposure to such claims. The legislation is a result of negotiations between business groups, labor… More ›

In Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont has signed into law HB 5005, a series of amendments to the state’s paid sick leave law. The amendments, including a recission of the exclusion of temporary employees from the state’s paid sick leave mandate, go into effect Jan 1. 2025. In 2012, Connecticut became the first state to enact… More ›

The Illinois legislature has amended the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act that makes significant changes in the law’s equal pay provisions and other rules. The amendment passed May 24 and will become effective upon signing by Gov. JB Pritzker. The act, which generally covers industrial labor—excluding clerical and professional—was amended in 2023 to require,… More ›

ASA has asserted a new claim in the lawsuit filed last year to overturn the New Jersey Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights Act. The law requires, among other things, that staffing agencies provide their employees with pay and benefits equivalent to those provided to client employees performing similar work. As originally filed, the suit alleged… More ›

The Form I-9 is a complicated two-page document that is accompanied by a 65-page handbook explaining how to complete it. There are many facets of I-9 completion that are unique to staffing firms. E-Verify is an Internet-based system maintained by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that allows businesses to verify the work eligibility of employees. The American Staffing Association offers this document to address the Form I-9 and E-Verify issues that staffing firms face most frequently. More ›

Temporary worker safety should be a top priority of all staffing firms. Being prepared for a federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection and understanding the correct steps to take can ensure positive business results for the staffing firm and the client, while also ensuring temporary workers’ rights, safety, and health are protected. This ASA… More ›