The Department of Labor (DOL) recently recovered more than $219,000 in back wages and liquidated damages on behalf of 44 workers who were misclassified as independent contractors, providing a real-life example of how serious the government’s crackdown on misclassification is….

The recent trend we have reported on where companies refuse to consider unemployed candidates for their job openings has now caught the attention of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). While the practice of preferring currently employed candidates is nothing…

You would think with all the workers still out on the unemployment line, it would take companies less time to fill a position. But recruiters recently told The Wall Street Journal that it is taking hiring managers up to four…

The First Quarter 2011 edition of Contracting Corner, ”The Perm Recruiter’s Contracting Resource,” is now available online. This issue focuses on a dramatic shift that has occurred in recruiting in the past year where primarily direct-hire recruiters have starting offering…

The times they are a-changing, and so are the workers previously known as temps. A recent article by The Ithaca (New York) Journal talks about the rise in temporary hiring, stating that U.S. employers added 300,000 temporary jobs in 2010….

Some of the most frequent questions we get at Top Echelon Contracting revolve around the proper classification of workers: When is it OK to classify them as 1099 independent contractors? What are the ramifications of misclassifying workers? When should they…