2. Workers’ compensation Insurance:
No premium deposits
Discounts unavailable through traditional markets
No annual state fees
No audits

3. Labor burden reports: Do you currently know to the penny what each employee truly costs you? An employee leasing company’s labor burden report helps you understand your bottom line, so you what to sell your goods or services for to earn the margins you seek.

4. Wage garnishments: Another check, another stamp and another wasted twenty minutes of someone’s time. Employee leasing services handle these time consuming tasks.

5. W-2’s: What’s worse- an ex-employee calling you in late February for their W-2 or getting return to sender over and over again when you mail them out… both! Let the employee leasing service deal with the headaches.

6. Work-place safety: Investing in workplace safety education is investing in the future of your business. Your workers’ compensation insurance history can make you more competitive or drive you out of business. Professional Employer Organizations have a significant stake in your company’s safety program. It’s in their best interest to help.

7. Direct Deposit: Imagine the extra hours of productivity you would get, if employees weren’t spending part of the afternoon waiting for checks then taking the time to cash them? Wasted time costing you money – direct deposit services are free!

8. HR Services: The only thing worse than being wrong on a hire is the employee dragging you to court when they’re fired. A human resource professional will help in outlining job descriptions, interview training, background checks, drug screening and proper job posting techniques.

9. Employee Benefits management: Shouldn’t benefits questions be directed to your benefits provider? Many PEO services provide a toll free hotline to their benefits department for employees to ask questions, feel educated and most importantly – get help when they need it!

10. Time Savings: If you see the value in these services but don’t have the time to become an expert, then you’re ready to explore the impact employee leasing services could have on your business.

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Including Workers Comp as a variable cost will usually result in three changes/improvements:

• Workers Comp costs will be examined more by Senior Management. If Workers Comp is viewed as a fixed cost, little attention will be paid to a possible silent budget killer. If a Risk Manager or CFO presents the costs as variable, Senior Management or the owners will be much more accepting of an in-depth analysis.

• Forecasting your future Workers Comp budget will be more accurate. If your company had 500 employees, and now has 350 due to the economy, why would you pay the same amount on the upfront policy with a 30% drop in employees and payroll? The same can be said for the budgeting of a self-insured. If Workers Comp costs are seen as overhead, then forecasting is usually not even attempted overall.

• Now that Workers Comp is a variable cost, the budget responsibilities can be broken down, for instance, each department, plant, location, etc. One of the quickest ways to lower a Mod is to delegate responsibility for their portion of the Mod down to the smallest groups possible. Lag time on reporting injuries are usually cut very quickly and substantially when lag time is looked at by management or the Risk Manager.

There are many other advantages to looking at Workers Comp as a variable cost.

Written by: James Moore with J&L Risk Management Services

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A small business group is asking that the increase be reduced by $62 million — an amount equal to the extra costs to the system of physician-dispensed drugs.

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty last October approved a statewide average 8.9 percent rate increase, which took effect on Jan. 1. It followed a 7.8 percent increase implemented last year. But even with this year’s increase, the state’s rates have fallen by a total of 58.6 percent since 2003.

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Pepsi Beverages has agreed to pay $3.13 million and provide job offers and training to resolve a charge of race discrimination filed with the EEOC. Read more

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Finding the right employee leasing company for you. As you can imagine, just like your business, no employee leasing provider is the same. Their workers’ compensation insurance and benefit plans have very distinct differences in coverage and costs. They service different industries, markets and states. Each company has minimum employee or annual payroll amount requirements as well. For example, many employee leasing companies only provide work comp coverage in the state(s) where their business resides. So if you work in multiple states, your employees would not be covered if an accident were to happen.

Each PEO provider also has different group health insurance providers with differences in benefits and pricing. This is extremely important not only in cost differences, but what if you’re in an area where the carrier’s doctors and hospitals are limited? Unlike a company salesperson who may try and fit you into their plan that has mediocre coverage, our job is to know which PEO companies have the insurance coverage that will work for your employees.

Competitive pricing. When we submit your company information to employee leasing providers who can deliver the services you need, each provider knows that they’re competing for your business. This can result in a savings of between 10-30% compared to contracting directly with the employee leasing company. There are many long term advantages as well. For example, if you hire more employees and your payroll grows, we’ll request more discounts for you that ordinarily wouldn’t be brought to your attention by the employee leasing company or sales person.

Strength of service providers and knowledge of the industry. As with any industry, there are strong and poorly managed employee leasing companies. The job of a broker is to save you time and money by investigating the history and financial strength of each PEO for you. We travel to the PEO providers, communicating with the principles and management. We know and develop relationships with their internal employees, the people who you’ll communicate with regularly. This is important in knowing their professionalism, communication and problem solving skills. Your goal in outsourcing these tasks is to eliminate time consuming administrative paperwork – not add to it. The PEO broker should know who can successfully service all the needs of your business, consistently.

As the employee leasing industry has grown, all the advantages favor using independent representation. We can help you reduce the time, sales appointments and hassles of trying to find out who can deliver the services you need; Security, in knowing you’re working with a reputable, professional employee leasing company that has a history of providing services to businesses in your industry and savings, as employee leasing providers compete for your business.

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To help sort through the confusion, here are five characteristics of independent contractors, from lawyers and law firms on JD Supra: Read more:

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Within the last thirty days, we’ve helped a construction company, two arborists and a staffing company save a total of $127,000 compared to their previous work comp insurance providers.

Some of the benefits a California PEO service will provide include:

• No deposits, no AUDITS, no surprises.
• An easy to understand labor cost for all your employee classifications, making it easier to bid jobs.
• Shifting of liability. In this coemployment relationship, they have a stake in your workers’ comp safety and preventable accidents because it’s their policy too. They manage work comp and unemployment claims, provide safety help with ideas and direction.
• Professional human resource services. Instead of paying for an in-house HR professional, your sharing several HR pros with other companies. In today’s world, employers need help with questions regarding proper hiring and firing techniques, how to reprimand or writeup employees to avoid future problems. There’s also governmental compliance issues that they keep you informed of and supply necessary material when needed.
• Time savings. All of the above take an extreme amount of time for someone or many to deal with every year and it’s all work that generates absolutely no income for a business - that’s why people outsource this stuff. This should free you up to work on more things that do create revenue.
• Utilizing the California PEO service for a lower state unemployment rate.