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OSHA Recordkeeping Requirements and the Staffing Industry
Recordkeeping Standards are not widely understood by clients of staffing companies, which could create confusion within a staffing company. In an effort to clarify and simplify the application of the OSHA Recordkeeping Standards to the staffing industry, RCS has taken excerpts from those standards, OSHA publications, and OSHA Standard Interpretation letters and condensed them into the following paragraphs.
Staffing company clients must record the recordable injuries and illnesses that occur to employees who are not on their payroll if they supervise staffing company employees on a day-to-day basis. The client company and the staffing company should coordinate their efforts to make sure that each injury and illness is recorded only once: either on the client's OSHA 300 Log (if they provide day-to-day supervision) or on the staffing company's OSHA 300 Log (if the staffing company provides day-to-day supervision). According to OSHA, day-to-day supervision occurs when, "in addition to specifying the output, product or result to be accomplished by the person's work, the employer supervises the details, means, methods, and processes by which the work is to be accomplished."
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Unemployment Softens
Unemployment is a hot topic these days. The good news is the Hampton Roads market is weathering the storm far better than the national average. While the rate is still higher then we would like, it does demonstrate the viability of our region. Staffing Services do contribute to our region and are a realiable source for employment. According to the American Staffing Association, in 2007 staffing firms employed 232,524 to firms in Virginia and of those 80,207 bridged to direct hire. Eight thousand full time direct jobs would certanily provide a local boost today. These numbers occur when the staffing firm and customer work closely together and needs are fully understood. These numbers today are representative of high expectations for our local economy only if we have no hire expectatation in the future. Lets partner together to keep Hampton Roads Working!
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Don't Forget the FCRA?
As the economy shows signs of recovery many staffing firms either are required by certain clients or routinely utilize background checks as part of the hiring process, and engage the service of third parties, such as consumer reporting agencies, to gather background information, including criminal history reports. When "red flags" surface in these background reports, employers typically act on that information and decide against hiring the individual. Companies must remember that when they use a third party reporting agency to gather this information, whether it is a credit bureau or some other background screening company, the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") is triggered.
Most companies now include language in their job application forms that obtain from applicants the necessary consent required to conduct these background checks under FCRA. However, any company who has not typically utilized a third party background check service and decides to do so must be sure to have their application/pre-hiring forms reviewed to make certain that the appropriate authorization for conducting these background searches exists.
Equally important, and more often overlooked, is the FCRA disclosure requirement. FCRA requires that an employer who intends to take an adverse action (like denial of employment) based on a consumer report make certain disclosures before taking the adverse action. Specifically, the company must:
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