Reviewing your suppliers? SIA list of largest staffing firms can help
If the new year brings supplier pipeline reviews, an SIA report of the largest staffing firms in the US is a good starting point when exploring options.
Sex discrimination: Riot Games settles with contingents, employees for $100 million
Computer games maker Riot Games Inc. agreed to pay more than $100 million to settle allegations of sex discrimination and harassment claims that involved 1,065 female employees and 1,300 female contract workers.
2021: The year in review
Covid-19 and its wide-ranging effects on contingent workforce management dominated readers’ interest in 2021, from vaccines to wage pressure to skills shortages. Here are the top stories of the year.
Buyer manager, outsourcing executives indicted for alleged no-hire pact
A former manager of an engineering company and five executives of outsourced engineering suppliers allegedly conspired not to hire employees from one another’s companies.
Regulatory roundup: NLRB IC standard; Massachusetts’ joint-employer test
The NLRB is poised to abandon the current standard for determining whether independent contractors are properly classified; Massachusetts’ High Court sets standard governing joint-employer liability.
Supreme Court to hear arguments over employer vaccine mandate
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments Jan. 7 on President Biden’s mandate that employers with 100 or more employees require their employees be vaccinated against Covid-19 or undergo weekly testing, Politico reported.
A different direction: EU countries eye shift from temporary work
Following elections that shifted them politically, several European Union countries are likely to pursue policy changes that restrict temporary work. What you can expect from certain jurisdictions.
Vaccine modules: Tech options to manage your program
While the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate is currently held up by legal challenges, organizations should still prepare and continue implementing mandate plans. A report outlines tools to help you do that.
Top advisory insights of 2021
SIA’s analysts and CWS Council advisory team provide — through CWS 3.0 — their insights to help program managers keep their organizations compliant and competitive.
IC roundup: Louisiana suspends ‘safe harbor’ law; Virginia secures first guilty plea
A Louisiana provision protecting first-time independent contractor misclassification offenders runs afoul of federal law; Virginia announced a guilty plea in the first misclassification-related charges brought by the state’s Worker Protection Unit.
