Technology has completely changed the way employers look for the right candidate. “Historically, talent acquisition and retention haven’t been at the forefront of the executive agenda, but that’s rapidly changing,” Dan Shapero, vice president of Talent Solutions at LinkedIn, recently told the Business Insider website. “Companies increasingly realize that talent is their greatest competitive differentiator — arguably even more so than …
Companies increasingly are turning to temporary staffing firms for more than their personnel needs. More than ever, they know a staffing firm like Apprentice Personnel can help them avoid the process of placing workers directly on their payrolls. Apprentice Personnel can become the employer of record for as many people as you choose, for as …
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Federal regulators are ordering employers to scale back policies that limit what workers, whether temporary or permanent, can say online. Employers, of course, try to discourage comments that paint them in a negative light. Their typical social media policies will instruct workers not to discuss company matters publicly, not to disparage managers, co-workers or the …
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It’s sometimes easy to forget, but anti-discrimination laws protect whites as well as minorities. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently investigated a printing company and found that it had discriminated against non-Hispanics. That illegal conduct cost the company $334,000. The affected employees were all temporary workers. The company had a staff of full-time regular workers, …
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Amendment 64, the Colorado marijuana initiative, was passed by voters in November but it’ll be months before employers can expect to get a clear idea of what it’ll mean to their job sites. With its passage, Colorado businesses are now left to contend with the consequences, intended and unintended — consequences that create many more …
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The U.S. Department of Labor estimates that the military discharges 160,000 active-service members and 110,000 Reserve and National Guard members annually. Statistically, about 32,000 of those veterans will join the ranks of nearly 1 million veterans already unemployed. For young, male veterans (18-24) the picture is even bleaker: in 2011, one out of every three …
By Will Temby The headlines are filled with them: Stories about workers’ compensation fraud and the millions of dollars that businesses and insurers are forced to spend in fighting “workers’ comp predators.” Just recently, there was the case of an Illinois woman who created fake work-related injuries and filed fraudulent claims for workers’ compensation benefits …
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By Will Temby Working for a temporary agency used to be an ideal option for victims of corporate downsizing. If companies weren’t hiring but needed extra help, they’d turn to temporary workers to help fill in the gaps. But the role of the temp agency has changed dramatically in the last decade. Instead of just …
By Lon Matejczyk Is a skills shortage making it tough for you to find the employees? In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Nick Schulz of the American Enterprise Institute notes that more than 600,000 jobs in manufacturing went unfilled in 2011 due to a skills shortage. This isn’t as much about finding …
By Will Temby OK, so we’ve been talking about myths in the industry all week. Here’s my favorite: Myth: It is legal to flip an employee to contractor status. The reality, folks: Labels are not so important when dealing with the difference between an employee and a contractor. What is key is who has the …
