Hearthlist Digest #180 - Sunday, August 2, 1998
 
re: employee leasing
  by "Noel Gilmore" <[email protected]>
 

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Subject: re: employee leasing
From: Noel Gilmore <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 16:01:07 -0500
 
>From: Bill Kline <[email protected]>
>Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 08:24:00 -0500
>I could only find one company that
>would allow me to send the helper up on a ladder or roof. That company used
>mostly drunks, and paid them off daily, which made it impossible to get the
>same man two days in a row. They would work a day, get paid, get drunk, and
>work another day when they needed more booze.
>
>I couldn't work that way. I don't know many small businesses that need
>semi-skilled workers, let alone skilled workers, that could survive long
>that way.
 
 
Oops...different type of leasing. It's not temporary labor for a day. With
a leasing company I hire and fire my own people, but the leasing co. and I
are joint employers...both our names appear on the checks. It's just that
they assume full responsibiity for payroll, payroll taxes, worker comp
(here is where the advantage lies if one has a high experience mod); I just
call in the hours, they call back and tell me how much to write the check
(which includes their rather modest fee), and they deliver the checks. Even
I'D be an employee of the leasing company, at least as far as my weekly
payroll check is concerned. It sounds great, and the two local companies I
called who are already clients of the leasing firm say they were suspicious
initially since it seems so easy that there must be a catch, but so far, no
catch.
 
Noel Gilmore