Human Resources

Failure to adhere to best practices in onboarding and offboarding temporary employees leaves staffing companies at a competitive disadvantage and open to potential liability. We help staffing companies assess and overhaul their onboarding and offboarding processes to incorporate various best practices, limit potential liability, and improve efficiencies. We advise our staffing clients about current issues impacting best practices, including background checks, wage and hour trends, class action suits, waivers, and automated I-9s.

An employee handbook is essential for any successful business, especially for staffing companies. A properly crafted handbook helps to better manage resources, especially staff, to optimize the workplace. The compilation of policies, procedures, working conditions, and behavioral expectations guide employee actions. We provide our staffing clients with properly crafted handbooks designed to protect our staffing clients from potential lawsuits, such as harassment, wrongful termination, and discrimination claims.

We represent staffing clients that are subject to compliance audits and, historically, have successfully negotiated favorable settlements. We have resolved issues including failure to pay minimum wage and overtime; state and federal prevailing wage violations; recordkeeping disputes; and failure to properly account for time; and misclassification of non-exempt employees and independent contractor status.

We assist our staffing clients with respect to the efficient and effective management of many of their immigration policies in order to avoid immigration-related liability. We help our clients maneuver through the complexities of work authorization and non-immigrant Visa services, including F1 and H1B Visas, E-Verify, and other immigration matters.

Social media has exploded as an invaluable tool in the staffing industry, but it has also left staffing companies unsure how to regulate its use in the workplace. Our staffing clients have many questions in this area, such as: Is asking applicants/candidates for access to their social media accounts appropriate? Who owns the information contained on social media sites? What are the necessary confidentiality considerations in social media use? Is employee social media use a protected activity? We offer cutting-edge advice to arm our staffing clients with the knowledge to reap the benefits of social media while avoiding potential liability.