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

In a major turn of events, California Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) has decided not to advance AB 2741, a bill that would have imposed new rules on employers and staffing agencies that place contracted workers in the state, and has amended the bill to remove all references to staffing, including conversion fees. The California… More ›

Earlier this year, the Iowa House of Representatives introduced HF 2391, a bill aimed at regulating temporary nurse staffing agencies. Among the provisions of the bill was language authorizing the state’s health department to “establish an annual rate schedule that shall be no greater than one hundred fifty percent of the statewide average wage paid… More ›

Josh Skundenberg, Locke Lord LLP On March 11, a federal judge in Chicago issued an injunction barring the state of Illinois from forcing staffing agencies to alter their existing employee benefit plans to instead provide their employees with benefits “equivalent” to those benefits offered by staffing agencies’ clients. In August 2023, Gov. JB Pritzker signed… More ›

By Alden J. Bianchi, Esq. Edward A. Lenz, Esq. Employers maintaining benefit plans, including health insurance plans covered by the Affordable Care Act, must comply with certain notice and reporting rules established by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Department of Labor under the tax code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act,… More ›

Last week, in a worker misclassification lawsuit involving the gig company Qwick, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced in a statement that Qwick had signed a “groundbreaking agreement” that would require the company to reclassify the workers as employees, pay them $1,850,000 in restitution and accrued sick leave, and pay the city a civil… 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 ›