Work Comp Staffing Solutions Expands Staffing Consulting Services

transforming daily chaos into long-term stability

Work Comp Staffing Solutions has specialized in workers compensation solutions for staffing firms for the last 7 years and is now expanding its services in to management consulting. As a 25 year staffing industry veteran, with 17 years experience operating a 60 office staffing firm, I saw the need for this type of hands on and affordable management consulting in the staffing industry. Most recently I was asked by my PEO clients to help them control costs and operate more efficiently. Many firms these days have been suffering from a variety of operating issues including reduced margins because  of increases in  workers compensation and SUTA costs and as well as increased competition.

One of our new  Work Comp Staffing Solutions Consulting clients  is Teramar Staffing Solutions which is a 8M multi state staffing company. Scott Prast the owner of Teramar felt that he needed to improve profitability quickly in order to deal with the higher costs of his 2013 payroll burden. By analyzing the pricing and labor costs related to each client, and developing a business strategy to improve his margins, Work Comp Staffing Solutions has helped Scott increase Teramar’s overall profits– in addition to finding a workers compensation PEO solution. Work Comp Staffing Solutions is also helping Scott improve the efficiency of his sales and marketing programs in order to decrease costs and improve sales productivity.

Here is what Work Comp Staffing Solutions Consulting Services can do for you:

  1. Metrics and planning tools
    • Captures revenue, unit labor and margin costs, and fixed expense data at the branch and corporate levels; examine weekly results and quarterly analytics; analyze gaps between results and benchmarks
    • Examines loss run and accident data; measure against workers’ compensation costs per client
    • Assesses/analyzes sales and marketing costs
    • Reviews analytic tools during weekly coaching calls
  2. Customer satisfaction
    • Designs targeted surveys
    • Develops scripts/supervises contacts with your client base
    • Reviews results with owners/staff
    • Establishes a feedback loop within the branch
  3. Marketing program
    • Ensures that your marketing plan includes the direct sales approach, telemarketing, social media, blogging, LinkedIn groups
    • Analyzes your large accounts
    • Conducts a detailed cost-benefit analysis of your marketing activities
    • Develops metrics for non-large accounts
  4. Revised compensation plans for company and/or temp staff
    • Sets manager and recruiting managers’ goals after reviewing model data
    • Revises and introduces Incentive compensation if appropriate
    • Establishes feedback loop for temp staff
      • Key feedback criteria includes stats on dependability and quality
    • Develops core temp plans
    • Designs satellite temp plan
  5. Quality improvement
    • Implements documented, business-ready system to enhance your service delivery and differentiate you from the competition

To find out more about the Work Comp Staffing Solutions consulting programs and workers compensation solutions, please contact me at davidstaffing@gmail.com and visit our web site at www.StaffingCompSolutions.com

21 Millon Reasons Why One Company Should Have Used a Professional Employer Organization

While it is hard to generalize from one legal case, this one may help you to understand why partnering with a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) can save you time and money.

A Customer Service representative sued her employer after she was fired for having anxiety attacks which forced her to take time away from the job. The employee was fired after taking a few days off without telling the employer. She was subsequently awarded 16M because the (California) court felt she earned this amount in damages (please do not ask me to explain this amount) Actually she was awarded only 5.1M, but the court added treble damages so the total was 21M. See this case/link below

http://www.swrnn.com/2013/02/15/los-angeles-woman-fired-for-having-panic-attacks-awarded-21-7-million/

The take away from this story is two fold. First California can be a very expensive state to employ people, Second, employing people these days without the use of a human resource specialist like a PEO is inviting trouble.

Had the employer been using a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) they may not have made this personnel mistake, and more importantly, certainly would have had a qualified human resource/ legal partner to help deal with the aftermath of this management decision.

Please feel free to contact Work Comp Staffing Solutions at 202-302-1212 to discuss your PEO needs and how you can get a worker’s compensation quote. Also visit us at www.StaffingCompSolutions.com to learn more about PEO’s and other workers compensation insurance solutions.

All the best
David Schek
President
StaffingCompSolutions.com
American Staffing Association Member
California Staffing Association Member
Exclusive PEO Broker for the United States Staffing Association

Work Comp Staffing Solutions Featured in Latest USSA Magazine

In the May/June  issue, the United States Staffing Association has featured StaffingCompSolutions.com. The article  focuses on the growing popularity of Professional Employer Organizations (PEO) as a solution to solving staffing companies growing workers compensation insurance challenges. The article also discusses how PEO’s  are a very efficient way to add greater value to your back office services so you can be  more client centric.

— Here is the link:

http://www.pageturnpro.com/Recruting-and-Staffing-Solutions-Magazine/50473-RSSM-Digital-Version_20130501/index.html#1

The article if full of interesting details about all the services that a PEO offers to staffing companies, and explains the benefits of partnering with a PEO for your payroll/ back office/healthcare  and workers compensation insurance needs.

Feel free to contact David Schek at davidstaffing@gmail.com and visit Work Comp Staffing Solutions at www.StaffingCompSolutions.com to get a FREE quote for your staffing business.

All the best
David Schek
President
StaffingCompSolutions.com
American Staffing Association Member
California Staffing Association Member
Exclusive PEO Broker for the United States Staffing  Association

New Work Comp Staffing Solutions PEO Client Saved 150K (and their company) in 5 days

Last week an 8M AZ and PA staffing company contacted Work Comp Staffing Solutions with a big workers compensation insurance problem.  His workers compensation insurance carrier, Dallas National, had non renewed them and the State Funds were their only possible solution to stay in business.  Unfortunately  this meant that they needed 150K for a premium deposit within a week to secure the State Fund/ Assigned Risk Pool policies,  before the workers compensation non renewal went into effect and they lost their workers compensation coverage. This would have probably put the staffing company out of business.

Work Comp Staffing Solutions was able to arrange for a nationwide Professional Employer Organization (PEO) to provide coverage to the staffing company within 72 hours so that they did not have to make the 150K premium deposit. In fact, the PEO solution did not require any premium deposit, which allowed the staffing company to keep their cash,  and invest it back into their business to keep growing.

If you are still using the State Funds/  Assigned Risk Pools for your workers compensation coverage, you probably are paying higher rates than your competitors who use a PEO, and you are most certainly paying higher premium deposits. And of course your workers compensation fees are not being leveraged, so that you receive other back office software and human resource services that a PEO uniquely provides.

For more information about how PEO’s can make you more competitive, please contact me at davidstaffing@gmail.com and visit our web site www.StaffingCompSolutions.com.

All the best
David Schek
President
StaffingCompSolutions.com
American Staffing Association Member
California Staffing Association Member
Exclusive PEO Broker for the United States Staffing  Association

Spaniards Give Their Workers Compensation System A Hand

(Warning – this article is rated R)

This vignette  about workers compensation  insurance and unemployment  fraud in Spain is almost too unbelievable.  Below is the link to  the article that will make you cringe, laugh, and cry — almost all at the same time

— http://www.workerscompensation.com/compnewsnetwork/from-bobs-cluttered-desk/16620-having-a-hand-in-insurance-fraud.html

So if you think the US workers compensation system has its problems, just be grateful you are not an employer in Spain.

Remember if you are insured through a State Fund,  you should look at utilizing a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) which can usually offer you better workers compensation rates and always offer much greater back office value for your money. Please contact me at davidstaffing@gmail and visit our web site www.StaffingCompSolutions.com

All the best,
David Schek
President
StaffingCompSolutions.com
American Staffing Association Member
California Staffing Association Member
Exclusive PEO Broker for the United States Staffing  Association

Here are 68M Reasons most Staffing Companies should leave State Funds

Here is a link detailing the 68M in humongous bonuses that California State Fund Managers and Executives are receiving while approving huge rate increases to customers and running the fund into the ground.

— http://www.wcexec.com/State-Fund-Bonuses-68-Million.aspx

I wonder how many other State Funds are approving big bonuses at the expense of their staffing stakeholders aka customers?  Staffing companies deserve a workers compensation partner that cares more about keeping rates low and competitive, than prospering at the expense of their “stakeholders.”

Please feel free to contact me at davidstaffing@gmail.com  or visit us at www.StaffingCompSolutions.com to discuss how you can start utilizing a workers compensation partner that cares more about your business than their next huge Payday from the State Fund.

All the best
David Schek
President
StaffingCompSolutions.com
American Staffing Association Member
California Staffing Association Member
Exclusive PEO Broker for the United States Staffing  Association