Laborers' Claims May Signal Red Flag.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)

Enterprise Systems Journal,  June, 2000  

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Human resources departments could soon be scrutinizing the length of time certain employment agency temporary workers and independent contractors spend at client job sites. A ruling by a federal appellate court that some Microsoft temporary workers were entitled to benefits they had been denied, could have far-reaching effects on staffing agencies and other providers of long-term temporary workers.

D. Richard Creson, President of Meridian Technology Group Inc., said potential court-ordered benefits, primarily stock options for non-benefited W-2 and 1099 agency temporaries and ...

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