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Get Free Staffing Employment and Sales Data—Participate in the ASA Quarterly Survey

Don’t miss your chance to get the staffing and recruiting data you need. The association’s quarterly Staffing Employment and Sales Survey for the fourth quarter of 2022 is now open. Participate in the survey and compare how your company is doing with similar-sized companies and firms within your industry sector.

After completing the survey, you will be able to access an exclusive online report archive, which includes benchmarks for the number of direct hire searches and permanent placements, sector-specific gross margin trends, and payroll and productivity metrics by company size. Participate by Feb. 24 to get the staffing industry information you’re looking for.

Register to take the survey at americanstaffing.net/quarterly-survey. If you have questions or did not receive a survey link, email research@americanstaffing.net. There are no fees to participate.

Ohio Governor Signs Revised Bill With No Health Care Staffing Mandates

On Jan. 6, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed legislation (HB 45) passed by the legislature minutes before lawmakers adjourned in December. The bill was an end-of-year package that originally included provisions from several other bills—including HB 466, which was introduced earlier last year at the behest of nursing homes and which would have imposed rate caps, registration, and reporting requirements on health care staffing firms.

ASA and its Ohio state lobbyist Andy Bowers of the Park Street Law Group waged an intense lobbying campaign to strike the rate cap and other mandates on health care staffing firms from HB 45. The final bill signed by the governor contained none of the onerous language from HB 466, but it did include a one-time payment of $350 million to nursing homes for workforce support. Nursing homes can’t use this money to pay for staff from staffing agencies, but the additional funding is expected to mitigate some of the cost pressures that precipitated last year’s attack on staffing.

Notwithstanding the additional funding, nursing homes may renew their efforts to regulate the staffing industry during the 2023 legislative session. ASA will continue to monitor developments and engage if necessary.

The Latest From Your Colleagues on ASA Central

ASA Central—the dynamic online community just for staffing professionals—is home to more than 27,000 staffing professional profiles and countless ongoing industry conversations.

This week, take a look at your colleagues’ discussions and some of the blogs they’ve posted on ASA Central:

Get involved with the community—update your profile today so you can network with colleagues, join a section community, recommend and comment on your colleagues’ posts, and share your own blog or discussion post. Log in to ASA Central now.