The federal government has already increased it’s enforcement on misclassifying employees as Independent Contractors and on illegal immigration. Now it appears it is setting its sights on background screenings. On this blog, we have advocated background screenings for contract candidates….

Workforce Management recently reported on an Employee Benefit Research Institute survey that found that nearly 25 percent of workers are putting off retirement this year. Surprise, surprise, 29 percent are blaming the economy for changing their plans. Others cited changes…

We’ve dedicated a lot of space on this blog to the importance of correctly classifying contract candidates as either W-2 Employees or 1099 Independent Contractors and warned of the government’s crackdown on the misclassification of workers. Well, the Federal Employment…

We’ve already discussed on this blog how baby boomers make great contract placement candidates, but what about their children and grandchildren? How do they stack up as contract workers? Well, if you are to believe the media hype, Generation Y…

If you have a contract candidate who has always been classified as a 1099 Independent Contractor, you may receive a little pushback from that candidate if you try to classify him/her as a W-2 Employee. You can try educating the…

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) recently announced in a news release that they will begin accepting