Contingent workers provide a valuable service to companies looking to staff short-term projects or reduce the costs of paying for full-time employees with benefits. However, many employers ...

I like to blame the Vizcaino v. Microsoft case for the ongoing misconceptions around co-employment and tenure limits. I remember the headlines. The standouts used the term “permatemps” ...

With everyone’s focus firmly on Brexit, it’s easy to forget that HMRC is gearing up to introduce possibly the biggest regulatory change to the private sector in more than a decade. The ...

In our last post, we discussed how companies engaging contingent workers through staffing firms can be overzealous in their desire to avoid the perceived risks of co-employment. But ...

Co-employment has been debated among lawyers, employers and suppliers of contingent labor ad nauseam for decades. High-profile, multi-million dollar judgments such as those against ...

Last week, the Toronto Star reported that safety audits of temporary staffing agencies by Ontario’s workers’ compensation board fell by 80% in 2018 from 2016. According to documents ...

In the legal sense, contract employees assigned to staffing clients will always be characterized as employees of the staffing firm. However, staffing clients will still be considered ...

Last month, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law House Bill 690, which amended the state’s Day and Temporary Labor Services Act to impose additional requirements on staffing ...

Regardless of your sector, you have come across mention of the ‘gig economy’ — the growing trend where organiztions contract with independent workers for short-term employment. ...

While the “gig economy” continues to be a buzzword trend, self-employment has proven to be a movement that is here to stay. More than 40% of the U.S. adult workforce reports either ...