Risk Management
Why Should the Implementation of an EOR Program Coincide with Your Fiscal Year?
For many companies, the beginning of the fiscal year brings about opportunities for change. Here’s why that time should coincide with a new EOR program.
Read MoreTime’s Right for a Compliance Gut Check
Now might be a good time to check in on the readiness of your compliance practices. The Dept. of Labor and the National Labor Review Board are teaming up to increase enforcement of worker misclassification, unlawful pay practices, and other workplace rights issues. Respectable organizations like yours already spend time and money on efforts to…
Read MoreThis Living Document Provides Up-to-the-Minute Details on Statewide Stay at Home Orders
Like so many elements of contingent workforce management, “return to work protocols” – the laws, rules and guidelines produced by each different state to manage the reopening of the US economy shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic – differ widely state by state. The workforce compliance experts at Littler have done yeoman’s work at building out…
Read MoreThe Changing Role of Drug Testing for Marijuana in the Workplace
The fractured legal environment surrounding the continuing movement towards marijuana legalization drives great ambiguity for employers when it comes to longstanding policies governing illegal drug use among the workforce. It is no longer completely clear how/when testing for marijuana can be legally performed (pre-screening or on-the-job) and how to appropriately address positive results. Let’s examine today’s complicated…
Read MoreCo-Employment: The Good, the Bad and the Reality
There is a widely held misconception among workforce managers that co-employment is a risk to be avoided. In fact, many consider co-employment with the same ill regard as worker misclassification. In truth, whereas improper worker classification is something to be avoided under any circumstance (under strict, costly penalty), there are instances when co-employment is…
Read MoreRevisiting Best Practices for Engaging Summer Interns
Summer’s coming. Whether or not your local weather forecast still calls for cold, rain and snow, tank tops, flip flops and lazy days at the pool will be here before you know it. So too will be annual efforts to source and manage intern resources for the summer season. What follows in this post is…
Read MoreHow to Avoid the Growing Threat of Billing Scams with Consolidated Billing
One of the “hot topics” at a recent conference attended by nextSource focused on the rise of some clever scams perpetrated against higher education organizations within their procurement departments. One such organization admitted to being victimized by these proliferating scams to the tune of millions of dollars! Read on to learn about this pernicious con…
Read MoreBOO! The Specter of Costly Misclassification Audits Rises this Halloween
Neither ghouls, goblins or ghosts strike as much fear into the hearts of workforce management practitioners as does the specter of a costly worker misclassification audit by the IRS, DOL or state. We have all read the gruesome tales of multi-million-dollar judgments against FedEx, Microsoft, Uber and other top-tier businesses. But this is a problem…
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