Do Tenure Limits Really Mitigate Co-Employment Risk?
As companies look for ways to mitigate their co-employment risk they often turn to tenure limits as a solution. The rationale is that creating a limit on the time a temporary employee ...
Why Risk It? Key Ways to Overcome Top Risks in Procurement
Over the past five years, the procurement industry has seen a shift in what is most important to procurement professionals and to the companies they serve. Two or three years ago, almost ...
A Matter of Control
In the contingent workforce arena, courts often “barrow” precedent from other areas of the law regarding responsibilities and liabilities for employment law compliance. ...
Ensuring Suppliers Abide by Employment Laws
Ignorance is definitely not a defense. Employers are responsible for Equal Employment Opportunity compliance by the staffing agency. The organization cannot claim that it was unaware ...
What’s in a Name?
In William Shakespeare’s best-known play, Juliet asks Romeo,
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Clearly, Shakespeare ...
Why Term Limits Aren’t the Best Solution for Co-employment Concerns
Term limits for contract employees have been popular since Vizcaino v. Microsoft nearly two decades ago. This class-action lawsuit pitted temporary workers against Microsoft, with the ...