March 5, 2014

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How to choose the right metrics for your program; How to know whether you're being billed appropriately.

Program Performance: What to score?

5 March 2014

Building a program's scorecard can be a frustrating exercise, but it’s a critical process to undergo. Tracking the right metrics can help you determine how you and your suppliers are performing — and more important, spot troubled areas before they become serious problems.


Contingent Worker Price: Know where your money goes

5 March 2014

For veteran contingent workforce managers as well as those who are new to the industry, knowing where the money goes at the worker level is critical. In order to know whether a bill rate is appropriate, first one must understand what goes into that rate.


Gender Gap: Are businesses missing out?

5 March 2014

In the run-up to International Women’s Day on March 8, companies are turning their attention to the topic of women in the workplace.


Temp Security Case Makes It to Supreme Court

5 March 2014

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case in which staffing firm workers at Amazon.com warehouses say they are owed wages for waiting in line to go through a security check at the end of their workdays.


How You Should Read Offshore Recruiting’s Rep

5 March 2014

Poor implementation may be why offshore recruiting has a bad rep, writes Global Editorial Director Subadhra R. Sriram in The Contingent Blog. But done right, its benefits are many. 


$14 Million for DOL to Continue Misclassification Crackdown

5 March 2014

The president's 2015 budget, released yesterday, includes $14 million for the Department of Labor to continue its efforts to fight independent contractor misclassifications, Read more from the Independent Contractor Compliance Blog.


SIA Research: Online Staffing and Compliance

5 March 2014

As online staffing has become more visible, some have questioned whether these platform businesses can act like typical staffing firms, which tend to bundle some measure of “compliance services” into their standard offerings. This report, available to CWS Council and Staffing Industry Analysts... More