Four Point HR and Staffing Firms | Human Resource Outsourcing, Professional Employer Services by Four Point HR

Four Point HR provides a simple employee administration solution for staffing firms to minimize unemployment liability, simplify payroll and lower costs associated with your staffing employees. Our solution includes back office payroll, tax, HR, and financing services. We understand how your cost of business increases with rising unemployment costs, growing workers’ comp claims, and the impact of healthcare reform. We customize each relationship to reduce these liabilities.

We Save Our Clients An Average of 1% Of Their Payroll Costs By:

Absorbing State and Federal Unemployment Tax Liability To Reduce Overall Tax Costs
Establishing Payroll Processing Solutions Customized To Our Clients That Allow Them To Print Checks At Their Location
Simplifying Workers’ Comp Administration With Premium Tracking On A Per Employee Basis And Invoice Payment
Providing Access To Attractive Financing Programs To Work In Conjunction With Back Office Solutions
Working Directly With Our Team Without Sales Brokers or Other Intermediaries That Drive Up Service Fees With High Commissions

Four Point HR has provided services to the staffing industry for more than 7 years.

We understand the unique back office challenges that your business presents.
We are aware of the ongoing increases to your cost of business that result from growing unemployment costs, workers’ compensation claims, and healthcare reforms.
We can help you minimize your exposure to employment related risk, stabilize your profits, reduce your number of vendors, and simultaneously simplify your back office operations.

SOLVING STAFFING FIRM ISSUES

Staffing Firm Challenge: INCREASING SUTA TAXES
State unemployment taxes will continue to make up a much greater portion of your bill rates than in years past. As the staffing provider, minimizing these costs requires a daily commitment to operating with sound internal HR practices, securing your clients’ commitment to progressive discipline, and finding suitable opportunities for those employees who have been terminated from an assignment.

Four Point HR Solution:
Four Point HR provides ongoing training, consulting, and assistance with the critical factors that drive up your unemployment tax rates. We provide ongoing HR Web-based support for your management team, actively review client and employee agreements, and consult on sensitive employee terminations.

Staffing Firm Challenge: DISCRIMINATION AND BACKGROUND CHECKS
Discrimination complaints filed with the EEOC can lead to expensive litigation or costly settlements for a staffing firm. Businesses can face individual or class litigation suits if hiring tests and background checks result in screening out protected classes, such as minorities, at a higher rate than other groups.

Four Point HR Solution:
Four Point HR can review hiring tests and evaluate background checks for potential discriminatory criteria. Our goal is to ensure that we find the right candidate to complete the work tasks, which may mean that we take extra time to ensure the needed screening criteria meets demand, while taking a broader view of those available in the workplace who meet the criteria. We keep our client companies in compliance with the new Federal background check laws and have the latest compliance updates for all 50 states. Four Point HR utilizes a national Web-based service to deliver quick turnaround on all background screenings.

Staffing Firm Challenge: WORKER MISCLASSIFICATION
In the absence of a national definition of “independent contractor” or “employee” employer-employee relationships are tested differently under different legal provisions in different states. Many states have either adopted or considered new worker classification laws that impose stricter classification and reporting requirements and worker classification audits can be triggered in many ways.

Four Point HR Solution:
Understanding the Federal standards and definitions, as well as the specific state requirements is part of what Four Point HR will do to ensure clients are well versed on this topic. Each state has developed its own case law that supports its specific labor code. Some important factors include: the right of control over the work, the length of time the person is employed, whether the work place provides the supplies and location to work, and the method of payment. Understanding these differences and providing clear communication will ensure that contractors and employees appreciate the differences and that these issues do not surface and/or create problems in the workplace.

Staffing Firm Challenge: WAGE AND HOUR
Clients sometimes pressure staffing firms to classify workers as exempt from overtime pay. Staffing firms must resist this pressure as they and their clients face liability from misclassification.

Four Point HR Solution:
Creating job descriptions that that correctly include the level of decision-making responsibility and pinpoint how the job fits into the client’s job hierarchy will help clarify exempt and non-exempt status. Additionally, applying some of the Exempt/Nonexempt criteria testing may help determine status if there are still questions. Two of these tests, the salary basis test and the job responsibility test allows for a quick review and a sound decision making process.

Staffing Firm Challenge: CASH FLOW
Cash flow is a concern for staffing firms. The gap between your date of collections and the date for funding payroll, workers’ compensation, and capital expenditures can create a significant cash shortfall.

Four Point HR Solution:
Through our affiliate Four Point Capital, Four Point HR offers staffing firms the opportunity to turn their payroll process into a source of liquidity. Our product, PAYgrow Payroll Funding, allows businesses to pay for each payroll on pre-arranged terms of 30 to 60 days over a 12-month contract period. Clients secure the credit with their business receivables.

Staffing Firm Challenge: IMMIGRATION COMPLIANCE
Many staffing firms rely mostly, or even exclusively, on U.S. citizens and residents for their workforce. Some staffing firms, however, engage significant numbers of foreign nationals to meet the staffing needs of their client companies. In any situation involving a foreign national, the staffing firm must address government immigration requirements carefully, because violations, even unintentional violations, can have costly repercussions.

Four Point HR Solution:
Four Point HR is well versed in the Employee Verification processes. We ensure that our client companies have received complete and valid documentation for all applicants, and follow the E-Verify laws on a state-by-state basis. We can confirm that clients are enrolled timely and that cases are open and closed according to the national E-Verify standards.

Staffing Firm Challenge: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION INSURANCE
Staffing firms have challenges managing the experience modification factor due to the high number of claims that can occur. In addition, the experience modification rating will become an even greater challenge as NCCI increases the amount of each claim that will impact the experience mod over the next three years.

Four Point HR Solution:
Four Point HR works with our staffing clients to help them obtain coverage that will limit their exposure to increasing experience modification pressures. In addition, we help our clients implement onsite risk evaluation to ensure that employee classifications are in the most appropriate codes.

Staffing Firm Challenge: SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT
While staffing firms are not required to conduct site-specific safety training or provide protective gear and equipment for their field workers, OSHA requires these firms to take part in safety education by video, printed manual, interactive computer based training or in person lecture.

Four Point HR Solution:
Four Point HR has a full library of safety training materials and safety program outline available to our clients. We offer outlines for safety training to help our clients conduct their employee safety training and review our clients’ contracts to help them include the proper wording to help protect their employees at their client locations.

Click here to register for our Free Webinar: Four Critical Steps To Reduce Unemployment Costs. It will be delivered online on March 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM EST by Kathryn Schene, Director of HR for Four Point HR. Participants will learn about:

Rising Unemployment Costs For Staffing Firms
Who Qualifies For Unemployment
Client Contract Considerations
Employee Agreement Considerations·Employee Separation Process
Unemployment Claims Handling

We look forward to getting to know more about your company and discussing how a partnership can help your business succeed. Please fill out the contact form below to reach a member of our staffing team .

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