Independent Contractor Misclassification Is a High-Risk Game

In today’s evolving business landscape, employers are turning to independent contractors to meet their workforce needs. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 42 million independent contractors generated more than $1.28 trillion for the U.S. economy in 2018. And for many companies, the number of independent contractors is nearly equal to that of employees. …

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Time’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…

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The 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…

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Co-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…

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Revisiting 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…

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How 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…

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BOO! 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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