Legal Topics

Legal Quick Facts

ASA's Staffing Smarts provides answers to common questions regarding utilizing a temporary workforce.

Assignment Limits and Client Concerns About Benefits Liability

The American Staffing Association's Senior VP, Public Affairs, and General Counsel answers questions to help client companies increase the value of staffing services to them, while reducing their exposure to benefits liability.

HR Specialist To Pay or Not to Pay

Last month's news that AT&T is facing a $1 billion (with a B!) class-action lawsuit over wage-and-hour mistakes put a jolt into U.S. employers of all sizes. That came on the heels of word that the U.S. Department of Labor dramatically beefed up its enforcement division. If this doesn't scare you, it should.

Disabled Veterans and the ADA

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has provided information for hiring, recruiting and accommodating disabled veterans. This is a hot topic for employers as the U.S. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq wind down.

Back to Top

HR Expertise

USCIS Revises I-9 Handbook for Employers

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released and updated manual to help employers with the Form I-9 process.

10 Tips to Improve Interviewing Accuracy

Whether you are new to interviewing, or if you have been interviewing applicants for years, these 10 Tips serve as a great guideline for interviews at all levels.

Is Your Company's Customer Service a Thing of the Past?

The world of customer service is changing and so are the skills, abilities and aptitudes necessary for customer service departments to succeed. The old days of using an interview script and simply checking references aren't going to help you hire people who can succeed.

Mastering Safety Issues Yields Dramatic Results - Workers Comp Relief

Jon Shipp, who took on safety issues at a 350-employee company shares his thoughts on how to decrease your worker's compensation claims costs. He experienced a 78% decrease in claims costs.

Staffing Employees: Extraordinary Human Resources

HR Professionals and hiring managers have a critical function of developing work force strategies that support their companies' constantly changing business requirements.

Good service, bad service both come with a price

Does a staffing agency's pricing structure reflect the value it provides to its customers? What is the trade off for price cutting? Poor quality, waiting in limbo for services to be executed, or maybe the staffing agency focuses attention toward their more profitable accounts.

Staffing Up to Avoid Staff Burnout

Hiring is more time consuming and more expensive than ever before. What's worse, retention of new hires has become even more difficult. The days of having Human Resource departments handle the entire hiring process are a thing of the past.

Back to Top

Business Insight

Four Tenets of Growth

In this white paper, we've selected four categories of focus based on their timeliness and urgency for CEOs and business owners: customer acquisition, health care, green initiatives and productivity. Each of the four tenets includes suggestions for increasing your efficiency, lowering your costs and steering you in a direction of growth for all of 2011

12 Trends That Will Define Business in the “New Normal”

"Business as usual" is undergoing a transformation brought on by changing consumer tastes and dramatic economic pressures. Companies now have to find new ways to appeal to consumers scarred by the economic crisis of 2008-2009. These consumers spend less and save more; many are jobless, many lack trust in businesses, and many expect the government to provide a high level of service.

Your Bridge to Smart Growth - A CEO’s Guide to Doing More with Less

A recent Vistage Confidence Index survey showed that 86 percent of CEOs say they have "to do more with less." The impact of the Great Recession and the challenges it has brought to businesses is far reaching. Most small and mid-sized companies are operating under resource constraints that include: significant staff reductions, scarce availability of credit, reductions in budgets, reduced customer spending...the list goes on and on.

Staffing Industry’s Positive Role in US Economy

The advantages of temporary work are recognized by workers, businesses, economists, and policy makers.

Creating an Extraordinary Culture and Superstar Employees

This paper will outline the steps needed to develop an extraordinary culture, avoid the trap of apathy, and get the maximum engagement and productivity out of your employees.

Handle with Care - Reflections on Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Author and Journalist, Dave Blanchard, shares his view on what makes a “top supply chain”.

Top Collections Industry Trends

Issues and statistics regarding bankruptcy reform, the receivable management industry, and debt collection are discussed.

Back to Top

Useful Links

Back to Top