Common Mistakes to Avoid with your Legal and Accounting for Staffing Companies

Running a successful staffing company involves many key components.  Overseeing day to day operations, maintaining client relationships, assuring quality, and keeping and placing candidates in the workforce certainly keeps your schedule full.  
 

Having outside professional resources to work with you on your accounting and legal needs is imperative – it is vital that these trusted advisors understand your business.  Having experienced advisors knowledgeable in the staffing industry allows you to focus your attention where it is needed most, and helps to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls that can be a drag on profits. 
 

The teams from Becker LLC and Citrin Cooperman will discuss what they have seen as critical issues to avoid that can make a big impact on your bottom line.
 

Launch Virtual Staffing Event Featuring Brian Beaulieu from ITR Economics

The Founders of Launch Staffing Conference are proud to have Brian Beaulieu from ITR Economics as our Keynote Speaker for our virtual event in 2021.
Brian will bring his views on the state of the Economy and the Staffing Industry during this informative session.

The Founders for Launch are:  The Assurance Group, Access Capital, Becker LLC and Citrin Cooperman. 

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Common Mistakes to Avoid with your Legal and Accounting for Staffing Companies

Running a successful staffing company involves many key components.  Overseeing day to day operations, maintaining client relationships, assuring quality, and keeping and placing candidates in the workforce certainly keeps your schedule full. 

Having outside professional resources to work with you on your accounting and legal needs is imperative – it is vital that these trusted advisors understand your business.  Having experienced advisors knowledgeable in the staffing industry allows you to focus your attention where it is needed most, and helps to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls that can be a drag on profits.

The teams from Becker LLC and Citrin Cooperman will discuss what they have seen as critical issues to avoid that can make a big impact on your bottom line.

Avoiding the Pitfalls: Common Compliance Mistakes IT Staffing Companies Often Make

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

It’s always best to prevent a problem before it becomes a problem, yet many IT Staffing companies do just the opposite. Sitting tight until your company faces a regulatory audit before actually taking the time to review and improve your compliance policies and procedures could prove to be problematic. Compliance is something that applies to the IT Staffing Industry, no matter what their size is. While many IT Staffing Firms should have some sort of compliance strategy mapped out, not many know how to integrate these processes and strategies to ensure profitability & operational efficiency. Though compliance planning requires a lot of time and energy to address, if not properly addressed, these compliance mistakes can cost millions of dollars. Despite their best efforts, companies frequently make the same mistakes when it comes to a thorough and effective compliance strategy. Our team of IT Staffing veterans will walk through the common mistakes they have seen and how they addressed these to ensure complete compliance.

Correct classification of YOUR employees?
Per diem classification for traveling nurse, healthcare, and IT staffing firms

Correctly classifying workers as independent contractors is being scrutinized more today than at any time throughout our country’s history. While the prior administration looked to ease the burden of employers proving valid independent contractor relationships at the federal level, our current administration appears to be more in line with states that have followed the more stringent ABC Test (most prominently, California).  

With the overwhelming high demand and minimal supply of these high-level professionals, the consultants carry much more leverage in deciding how they prefer to be classified (W-2 vs. independent contractor).

Employee vs. Independent Contractor: Avoiding Costly Misclassifications

Correctly classifying employees vs. independent contractors (IC) is essential for determining the need for wage withholdings, taxation issues, employee benefits, workers compensation, and more. Sarah Davis and Chris Leddy join Julie Ann Bittner to discuss the three common classification tests used to determine IC classification status, exemptions, and practical concerns specific to the staffing industry. They also share steps staffing company owners can take to minimize risk including contractual provisions, documentation, and more.

Updating EEO, ADA and Drug Testing Policies in the Wake of COVID-19 and Recent Marijuana Legislation

Speakers:  Christopher M. Leddy, Esq. and Sarah L. Davis, Esq. - Clearly articulated, written policies are an employee’s go to resource for guidance, clarification and answers to basic employment questions. With all the changes being felt by both employees and employers as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as well as recent legislation passed in numerous states allowing the recreational use of marijuana, updating your company policies has never been more critical. 

A Better Way to M&A: Strategies for Sourcing, Courting & Winning Deals

Presented by: Martin L. Borosko, ESQ., Becker LLC, Brian Waller, Chief Strategy Officer, Vaco Talent & Solutions, Brad Chesin, Chief Executive Officer, Labor Source Holdings, Patrick Morin, Partner, Transact Capital Partners

Law and Insurance Requirements Affecting the Healthcare Staffing Industry

Moderator: Martin L. Borosko, Esq.  Staffing Practice Leader

Panelists: 
Christopher M. Leddy, Esq.,Partner, Becker LLC 

Tony D'Amicantonio, Vice President, Odell Studner

MSA Webinar PPP Rounds 1-2 and ERTC

Panelists:  Becker LLC – Martin Borosko, Esq.  Staffing Practice Leader &
Chris Leddy, Esq. / Citrin Cooperman – Barry (BJ) Hoffman, CPA and
Michael Zyborowicz, CPA & Staffing Practice Leaders

Staffing owners: 2021 updates in background screening, drug testing, & COVID-19 vaccination requirements

TCI Business Capital invited industry experts to discuss the following topics:  
 

• Criminal History Reform: Trends and How to Reduce Risk with Background Screening

• Legalization of Marijuana and the Impact on Drug Testing

• COVID-19 Vaccinations and Testing in the Workplace

Becker LLC's Christopher Leddy, Esq. /  Alan Lasky, VP of Sales, Universal Background screening, & Judy Praska, Owner/ President of Fastest Labs of Bloomington 

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MSA Legal and Compliance Webinar Series:  Privacy and Leave Laws for Massachusetts

MSA Legal and Compliance Webinar Series:  Privacy and Leave Laws for Massachusetts with Chris Leddy and Sarah Davis from Becker LLC

To listen to the discussion Click here.

Five Questions with Dave Phillips of Citizens M&A Advisory about the Staffing Industry M&A Market

Martin L. Borosko, ESQ., Staffing Practice Leader & Managing Member of Becker LLC, interviewed Dave Phillips, Managing Director of Citizens M&A Advisory, to discuss the current state of the Staffing Industry M&A marketplace.

To listen to the discussion between the two Industry Veterans, Click here.

The Home Stretch:  Ensuring that you maximize your PPP Forgiveness and successfully navigating the SBA Questionnaire

As the PPP Loan process heads into the home stretch, Staffing Companies who are PPP loan recipients, are diligently doing all that they can to maximize their forgiveness and preparing the SBA Questionnaire.   Our panel of Industry Veterans will have an open discussion on their thoughts and insight to the processes for both Forgiveness and how to work your way through the Questionnaire.

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Becker LLC’s Staffing Team Leaders Discuss the PPP Forgiveness Questionnaire

Michael Bartels, Chief Development Officer of Becker LLC interviewed Marty Borosko, ESQ., Staffing Practice Leader & Managing Member at Becker LLC to discuss in detail the PPP Forgiveness Questionnaire that was released by the SBA. During their discussion, Marty gives a detailed review of the questionnaire and offers the Staffing Industry his view of the various sections and how owners and management can work their way through the questionnaire.

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For more information in regard to the content, please feel free to contact Michael Bartels at:  mbartels@becker.legal

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The Home Stretch – Making sure that you maximize the forgiveness on your PPP loan

MSA Webinar - PPP Forgiveness and Audits With the PPP Loan process heading into the home stretch, it is very important that loan recipients do all that they can to maximize the forgiveness that the SBA is allowing.  The teams from Citrin Cooperman and Becker LLC will discuss this important topic, providing their insight on the process.
 
Speakers:  Becker LLC – Martin Borosko, Esq.  Staffing Practice Leader & Chris Leddy, Esq. Partner Citrin Cooperman – BJ Hoffman, CPA and Michael Zyborowicz, CPA & Staffing Practice Leaders

Defining the Current Trends in Middle Market Staffing M&A
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Our panel of four industry veterans will define what they are seeing as Current Trends in Middle Market M&A in the Staffing Industry.  The topics covered during our session will include:

• Discussing current valuation in each market segment 

• Defining the current buyers and sellers in the market 

• Describing the market for financing and acquisition strategy 

• Evaluating changes in trends in economic and other key deal terms 

• Analyzing how to handle acquisitions from firms that receivedPPP loans  

• Explaining how buyers should shift the focus of their financial diligence
   

The New Realities of Remote Work: Formulating Effective “Telework” Policies
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Moderator: Timothy J. Szuhaj, Esq., Panelists: Jason Leverant, David J. Sprong, Esq., Robert Thompson

The current pandemic has made remote working or telework the new normal. Many executives and entrepreneurs expect that the expanded use of a decentralized work model will remain in place, and perhaps even expand, in the future.   Accordingly, it is imperative that businesses create and implement formal remote work policies to manage and encourage the mutually beneficial use of this emerging workplace trend. 

FREE WEBINAR Hosted by Ringo: COVID-19 Staffing Industry Challenges

COVID-19 is upending every aspect of the economy, and placing tremendous strain on the staffing industry—especially in healthcare.

To break down what this all means for you now and in the future, Ringo has assembled an all-star panel of legal and staffing industry experts to address key questions facing agencies in the healthcare space right now.
Key topics include:

•  Understanding Force Majeure and its impact
•  Increasing margins in the new environment
•  Agency survival strategies

Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Securities (CARES) Act:
A Webinar Covering the Benefits of the Federal Stimulus Package

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Our Panel of Staffing Industry Professionals will explain during our webinar how the CARES Act will benefit the Staffing Industry through:
•    CARES Act:  Provisions to Individuals and Businesses
•    The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
•    The Expanded U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Economic Injury Disaster Loan program
•    Newly updated tax provision

A GUIDE TO UNDERSTANDING AND NAVIGATING COVID 19 LAWS

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Panelists:  David J. Sprongs, Esq. and B.J. Hoffman, CPA

COVID-19 is having an unprecedented impact on businesses of all sizes.  Our federal and state governments have reacted with sweeping new legislation and Executive Orders designed to bolster the economy in view of the extraordinary health emergency.
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Short and Long Term Impact of COVID 19 on the Staffing Industry

​COVID 19 has already caused incredible disruption to the staffing industry. Our panel of industry leaders will help you sort fact from fiction in determining how long and how deep of a short and long term impact the pandemic will have on the industry. 

Multistate Employer Considerations

Massachusetts Staffing Association Webinar Presented by The Becker Staffing Group 

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In this webinar, Christopher M. Leddy, Esq. and Sarah L. Davis, Esq. covered the complex topics of “Multistate Employer Considerations”.

Employee Handbooks & Poster Requirements

Massachusetts Staffing Association Webinar Presented by Becker Staffing Group

Not only can Employee Handbooks serve as introduction to your company and its culture, Employee Handbooks can be your first and most formidable defense against a lawsuit.  In this seminar we will explore and discuss the most pertinent provisions to include in an Employee Handbook. 

Predictive Scheduling & Fair Work Week Ordinances

How they will impact the Staffing Industry

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Industry leading professionals from Becker LLC will discuss the recent enactment of predicative scheduling of fair work week laws and their potential impact on the staffing industry. 

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SCALABILITY: Scaling Your Business: How to Build a Management Team and Implement Business Processes Facilitating Growth

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Recorded October 11, 2017 - Click here for details 

Navigating the New Ban on Salary Disclosure - A Primer for Staffing Companies

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Recorded June 14, 2017   /   Click here for details