According to CareerBuilder.com 20 percent of employers plan to increase employment in 2010 up from 14% last year. And they report that 25 percent of employers polled rate employee morale as low.
Through its partnership with USA Today, CareerBuilder.com publishes regular reports on employment. The blog, called The Hiring Site. I recommend checking the site out.
Costs Going Up
Are you feeling good about the passage of Health Care Reform? I’m not, but not for all the normal reasons.
You see, I’ve always been a pay as you go kind of guy. Be it the business or personally we’ve always self financed everything or did with out.
That’s why the enormous Federal debt being piled up by the Government only to be expanded by Health Care Reform is very troubling to me. Consider the following:
In 1966 Medicare cost $3 billion and was projected to cost $12 billion by 1990. The actual cost in 1990 was $107 billion.
Then they want us to believe that we can save $500 billion over 10 years by cutting waste, fraud and abuse. This suggests that we’ve ignored all these problems in the past.
The President said the other day, reform will save $1.3 trillion. This can’t be true because the money saved on Medicare will be funding new spending.
Government run Health Care already exists in Massachusetts. That states insurance program has seen costs rise 42% or almost $600 billion. Insurance costs there are the highest in the nation.
Everyone except our Politicians seem to understand that you can’t live on borrowed money forever.
The question seems to be are we too late??
Click us Away
We received a very “stressed” e-mail last month from a reader urgently asking to be removed from our mailing list. The reader took great exception to the inclusion of what was termed “political commentary” as being inappropriate.
As a matter of interest our letter is not meant to be political in anyway. We do take positions against issues that are bad not only for our business but others as well. We plan to continue to speak out against such things as Health Care Reform, Card Check, Healthy Families, etc., because they are bad for business.
My point here is that nobody needs to get upset over our content. All you have to do is click the “unsubscribe” button and you’re gone forever. After all, that is what it’s there for.
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Your temp help bill could go up $1.05 per hour due to Health Care Reform. . . .Good or Bad?
Perhaps because it will impact our longevity more than that of your place of business I have been eagerly seeking info on how Health Care Reform will impact the temp help industry.
The big question is will all temps have to be covered by an employer provided Health Care Package?
This is an important issue to those that utilize a contingent workforce strategy in manning their facility. As we all know, you are ultimately as the consumer of temp help going to have to pay the cost of Health Care for temps through higher bill rates, or stop using temp help all together.
Most temp help suppliers of clerical and light industrial personnel do not cover these workers under any Health Care Plan. While the employer mandate does not kick in until 2014 and it could change several times, over by then, we have seen one analysis of its impact on the industry.
Under current interpretations those of us in the staffing industry that do not provide coverage would face a monthly assessment of $167.00/month per full time temporary ($2000.00/year). The definition of full time is vague. One view is that it will mean any worker that averages 30 hours per week worked. The assessment would not apply to those working less than this in any given month. Hence, if you used a temp for only one week there would be no assessment.
Under this scenario the user of temp help would probably see an increase to their bill rate of about $1.05/hour plus sales tax. This might seem like a lot but when you put it in comparison to what you spend on your full time employees Health Care it could be a bargain.
This obviously is a best guess estimate of what the additional cost could be in 2014. At least it’s a start on how this new law will impact temp help users.
Stay tuned……
Call Us Old Fashioned But We still Like Some Face to Face Time
Technological advancements are the biggest changes the staffing industry has experienced in the past decade. iPhones, Webinars, PDAs, Blackberrys, Twitter.
Cell phone and e-mail have replaced land line phones, fax machines, classified ads and face to face business meetings.
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