Conducting A Background Check: 4 Things You Should Ask Yourself
Here’s a scenario that might be all too familiar: You’ve pulled out all the stops to identify, interview and potentially place one or two skilled candidates, but suddenly your ...
Preparing for Brexit with New Talent Borders
How will the talent and skills landscape in the UK change leading up to and post-Brexit?
Last June, the world woke up to a vote by the citizens of the United Kingdom deciding to withdraw ...
Staffing Firms Face Growing Threat of Data Breaches
It can be a staffing company’s worst nightmare— the discovery that hackers have infiltrated its computer networks and made off with job candidates’ personal information and other ...
Staffing M&A: When A Buyer Calls
As the robust staffing M&A market continues in 2017, more strategic buyers are reaching out directly to smaller competitors to determine if they are open to selling their businesses. ...
IR35’s Impact on Private Sector Contractors Leaves Businesses with More Questions than Answers
As more news emerges about how IR35 — a UK tax law that affects independent contractors — will be applied in the public sector, concern grows about if (and how) the law will be ...
The ongoing healthcare legislation saga
According to Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, “Laws are like sausages; it is better not to see them being made.” That was surely true of the struggle over the recently proposed ...
Bankruptcy – Seeking “Critical Vendor Status”
Staffing company interests and obligations are all too easily orphaned in the days just preceding, and immediately after, a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition. The general pressures of ...
Trump’s First Executive Order Takes Aim at ACA
President Trump’s first executive order announces a broad policy to seek the prompt repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and to implement other strategies to achieve healthcare ...
USDOL in Fight for Independent Contractor Compliance
The U.S. workforce is changing. With the proliferation of companies like Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, and UpWork utilizing new on-demand economy business models, the contingent workforce ...
Brexit: A Potential Silver Lining for Independent Contractors and Clients in the UK
As the dust settles from the UK’s Brexit vote, more questions than answers emerge about how this groundbreaking decision will affect independent contractors and their clients both ...
