Staffing Solutions for Today’s Market

Caron Associates serves the client companies by providing a reliable single source for all your staffing needs. Our staffing solutions include the following:

• Direct hire placements	• 1099 to W2 conversions
• Contract Staffing	• Payrolling services
• Contract-to-direct conversion	• Retiree re-staffing

Common Situations in Today’s Business Environment

• Do you have a hiring freeze now that prohibits you from hiring someone?
• Do you have a deadline or special project that you need completed?
• Do you need to reduce tax risks associated with 1099 independent contractors?
• Do you want to mitigate health insurance costs and risks to your business?
• Do you want to evaluate a candidate’s skills prior to offering direct employment?
• Do you want to avoid layoffs and bad press

Advantages of Contract Staffing

1. Reduced Employment Costs
• No workers’ compensation exposure or claims
• No employee benefits costs for medical, dental, vision, life, and 401(k)
• No added expense for holidays, vacations, sick time, etc.
• No administrative costs for hiring and processing new employment paperwork
• No added costs for routine background checks
• No administrative costs associated with payroll withholdings, filings, and reportings
• Minimized risk of IRS and state audits because of worker misclassification

2. Staffing Flexibility
• Match staffing levels to your workload and project requirements
• Quick hiring process vs lengthy direct placement cycle
• Option to terminate/replace contract placement at any time
• Acquire needed resources through a standard purchase order versus capital budget

3. Sole-Sourcing Staffing Ability
• Decrease the number of staffing/recruiting vendors
• Simplify invoice payment processing
• One-stop shopping for all your staffing needs

4. Temp-to-Direct Conversions (Try Before You Buy)
• Interview and assess the real skills during the contract period
• Evaluate how the candidate fits your corporate culture

5. Maintain Budget Controls
• Accelerate the pace at which projects reach completion
• Secure labor needed for projects through a purchase order
• Eliminate unnecessary overhead
• Minimize or eliminate benefit costs

Simple weekly process

Once you select a contract candidate, your involvement in the weekly process is extremely easy! You authorize billing by signing a weekly timesheet for the contractor and then pay an invoice. Our back-office will handle all the employment paperwork, payroll taxes, unemployment, workers’ compensation, background checking, benefits, etc.

Insurance protection

In today’s business environment, insurance coverage provides an added layer of protection and should be a requirement for every contract placement at your facility.

Our contracting service carries a comprehensive package of insurance, which includes:

• Commercial General Liability $1,000,000 per occurrence; $3,000,000 in the aggregate
• Professional Liability $1,000,000 per occurrence; $3,000,000 in the aggregate
• Commercial Excess Liability $5,000,000 combined single limits
• Hired/Non-Owned Auto Liability $1,000,000 combined single limits
• Employee Dishonesty Bonding $1,000,000 combined single limits
• Employers’ Practices Liability $1,000,000
• Employee Forgery Bonding $25,000

Wide range of benefits for contractors

Companies enjoy greater employee retentions by offering quality benefits. As the legal W-2 employer of record for contractors, our back-office pays the contract employees on a weekly basis and also offers the following benefits: