Cultivating the optimal supplier base
A program manager shares the rationalization process for supplier retention and selection during a global MSP rollout.
SIA announces 2019 40 Under 40
SIA introduces the 2019 class of the Staffing Industry 40 Under 40, men and women who are shaping the landscape of the contingent workforce. Keep informed on what these passionate collaborators have in store for the ecosystem and what it means to you.
Changing Tides: Denials, revocations, unprecedented delays on H-1B visas
Obtaining temporary work visas for highly skilled foreign workers become increasingly difficult under President Trump. Firms now also report problems with keeping existing visas as well as decision delays.
Creating diversity in your contingent labor pool
Diversity hiring and inclusion are top-of-mind for many organizations, yet the contingent labor pool and supply chain are often overlooked as potential sources of diversity spend when developing strategy.
Trim down: An excessive supplier pool is a poor program strategy
Failure to achieve program goals and objectives can be attributed to a weak staffing supplier strategy. Here’s how, and what strong programs do.
Beware asking suppliers to help meet affirmative action goals
Staffing firms are not allowed to source, screen, recruit or hire based on protected status to meet client companies’ federal contracts obligations. But they can help in other ways, writes an attorney in Staffing Industry Review.
Helping your suppliers stand out
A scorecard process reveals commonly missed metrics, and a program manager shares how suppliers can up their game — as well as how the program can improve — in Staffing Industry Review.
Feds publish final rule on H-1B visa process, delay new electronic system
USCIS published a final rule that brings changes to the H-1B visa process, including a registration process and a change in the selection process.
Contract clauses: Your suppliers might start pushing back
Attorney George Reardon writes about some of the most unfair — and detrimental — clauses that have made their way from purchasing into staffing contracts.
Back to the future
What’s past is prologue, as Shakespeare wrote. SIA’s Bryan Peña revisits predictions made in 2008 as he looks at what’s ahead for the industry now.
