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Well, it might not be time to break out the champagne just yet, but you're hanging in there, muscling through year-end, getting those W2s out and generally rocking your business.
When you need to take a break, please feel free to drop into the COATS Users Group on LinkedIn to get advice from your fellow staffing leaders, and check out the COATS blog for staffing stories and legal roundups. And don't forget to like us on Facebook! (That iPod Shuffle is still waiting to be WON!)
Here's to an awesome 2012!
Thanks for being part of our family,
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What's New in COATS' New Versions
For COATSsql, the latest version is 4.3.3 (but 4.3.2 is fine as long as you're not doing business in California). New features and options:
- Texting via individual employee, group of employees at one client or group of employees at one job
- Filterable mass email for employees
- Emailing resume via employee file
- Handling W2s online
- Running bank balance in bank window
- AR history by date range
- Invoice dates included on collection letters
- Keeping LPM status when deleting employees on job order
- PO# adding to right click in payroll data entry
- Employer contribution of healthcare compliance
For COATS Standard, the latest version is 9.0.4. New features and options are: - Employee Master Record now has a check box for E-Verify
- Online W2 box added for online W2 management via Global Cash Card
- HIRE ACT Retention Credit report has been added
- All W2, year-end and state tax updates have been added
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Staffing and Employment: What's New in 2012
 The year is just a few weeks old, and already there's a lot of new stuff to keep up with. So we've gathered some of the important news that will affect your business in 2012 in one handy location.
Highlights include: FUTA, Social Security, minimum wage, filing income taxes and our friends at the NLRB.
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Hiring in 2012: Good News for Staffing
Several years ago, MSNBC ran an article, "Where Will the Jobs Be in 2012?"that predicted a world where the greatest demand would be for highly-skilled specialists in fields like health care and international business. Lawyers and financial experts would also be in demand, and engineers would be building nanobots. That hasn't exactly come to pass.
One thing the article did get right (by talking with a staffing firm representative!) is that jobs in the skilled trades are in high demand, as a generation of skilled workers retires.
So what does hiring actually look like in 2012?
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Help Your Clients Find the Qualified Workers They're Missing
 This past fall, Wharton School management professor and HR expert Peter Capelli created some waves when he claimed in a guest column for the Wall Street Journal, "With an abundance of workers to choose from, employers are demanding more of job candidates than ever before. They want prospective workers to be able to fill a role right away, without any training or ramp-up time. In other words, to get a job, you have to have that job already. It's a Catch-22 situation for workers-and it's hurting companies and the economy." Capelli's suggested solution to the problem, and a golden opportunity for staffing firms: flexibility. "Finding candidates to fit jobs is not like finding pistons to fit engines, where the requirements are precise and can't be varied," he said. "Jobs can be organized in many different ways so that candidates who have very different credentials can do them successfully."
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2011 Legal Roundup
 Oh, what a year it was in employment law. Themes that sprung up throughout the year were: social media, the definition of disability, health care reform legislation and the National Labor Relations Board.
Let's look back!
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Like Us on Facebook and You Could Win an iPod Shuffle!
 We're trying to build a nice, healthy staffing community on the COATS Facebook page. We want you to know the latest from COATS HQ, including news of our clients' growth, pics of us out and about and updates from the COATS family (which includes you!).
In fact, we want that so much that we're holding a drawing for a free iPod shuffle. Once we get to our 200th "Like," we're going to use random.org to select a number between 1 and 200. So even if you've "Like"d us all along, you could still win.
So "Like" us! Really, really "Like" us! Click the box below to view our Facebook page.
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Contest: How Do You Use COATS?
 Tell us and you could win a $25 gift card!Whenever we talk to you, we're amazed at the innovative uses you find for the capabilities of COATS. Send us an email telling us what special way you've devised of using COATS, and we'll enter your name in a drawing for a $25 gift card! We'll also publish the best COATS tips in our newsletter. |
Join the COATS Users Group on LinkedIn
 The COATS Users Group on LinkedIn is starting to heat up! We created this group for COATS users to discuss the software with us and with each other so we can all get more out of it. This is a members-only group, so you don't have to worry about anyone wandering in and spamming us. Unfortunately, that means you do have to apply for membership, but we promise you'll get in; all you have to be is a COATS user. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Miss a Newsletter?
COATS has been sending an emailed newsletter since August of 2008. If you missed one of our monthly newsletters, click below to see what you've missed!
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Upcoming Training Times for COATS
Group training times for COATS customers (all times are Eastern): February 2012 23: 10 am-noon, 2-4 pm
24: 10 am-noon, 2-4 pm March 2012 22: 10 am-noon, 2-4 pm
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Welcome to Our New Clients!
We'd like to welcome these new clients to the COATS family:
- California Employment Services
- Chartwell Staffing Services, Inc.
- Kamran Staffing
- Level Resources
- Quality Staffing Now
These COATS clients added more users this month:
- Advance Payroll Funding
- Chartwell Staffing Services, Inc.
- InfiniStaff
- Nexeo
These clients expanded their power by adding COATS options:
- Level Resources - Online Applications
- Workforce Management - Online Applications
- A1 Careers - Online Job Posting
- Workforce Management - Resume Parsing
- MuniTemps - IntelliPath
Thanks to all of these companies; let's grow bigger and better together!
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Compliments of:
Stacey E. James
Littler Mendelson P.C.
501 W. Broadway, Ste. 900
San Diego, CA 92101-3577 (619) 232-0441
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