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May 29, 2025 Jun 02, 2025

Participate in the ASA Mentor Match Program—There’s Still Time to Apply

Are you looking to support your colleagues and help advance future leaders in the staffing and recruiting industry? Enroll as a mentor in the ASA Mentor Match program. Mentor Match allows members to make valuable industry connections, define career goals, and gain insight from staffing peers. The goal of the program is to help members grow professionally and network with fellow ASA members.

Mentors are matched with a mentee based on areas of expertise for a six-month period. Applications are due tomorrow for the six-month cycle that begins in July. Visit americanstaffing.net/mentormatch to get started.

New ASA Legal Line Video for Members: Immigration Enforcement on the Rise

How has the increase in immigration enforcement and new compliance challenges under the second Trump administration affecting the way staffing firms conduct their business?

The ASA Legal Line monthly video series features a member of the ASA legal team or industry legal expert and addresses critical legal, regulatory, and legislative topics that have direct implications for your business. In the latest installment, ASA general counsel Brittany Sakata reviews some compliance strategies to consider in the current environment. In addition, ASA recently hosted a webinar on this topic, presented by legal experts Dawn Lurie and Helen Konrad. ASA members can access the recording of the ASA webinar “Are You Ready for ICE? What Every Staffing Firm Needs to Know in 2025″ for free.

Watch the latest ASA Legal Line video, then join the conversation on ASA Central.

Welcome New ASA Members

The ASA board of directors and staff welcome the following new members, which joined during the week ending May 25.

Cohesive Staffing Solutions
Shawnee, OK
Matlock Group LLC
Baltimore, MD

Legislation to Tax Temporary Staffing Services Signed Into Law by Washington Governor

In an effort to close a multibillion-dollar budget deficit, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson recently approved several bills containing tax increases, including one bill that expands the sales tax base to include additional services, including temporary staffing services.

The bill, SB 5814, expands which industries are covered by the state’s 6.5% tax on retail services. As of Oct. 1, 2025, the term “retail sale” will include, among other services, temporary staffing services. When added to existing local sales taxes, the total sales tax rate on temporary staffing services imposed on consumers and collected by the seller could exceed 10%.

ASA, along with several Washington state staffing firms and other businesses, vigorously opposed the proposed bill as it worked its way through the legislature, arguing that a sales tax on temporary services is “a tax on jobs that will harm Washington’s workers and the state’s economy.”

Following passage of the bill, ASA submitted a letter to the governor urging him to veto the tax on temporary staffing services because it would hurt small businesses, job seekers, and consumers and make Washington an outlier among West Coast states that would place the state at a competitive disadvantage with neighbors that do not impose such taxes.

Because temporary staffing services will now be treated as “retailing” rather than “servicing,” staffing agencies will see a decline in their state’s business and occupation tax. The B&O tax on retailing is currently 0.471%; services are taxed at 1.5%–1.75%. Both rates are scheduled to increase in the future.

To determine the net tax effect of the new sales tax law on their business, ASA members doing business in the state of Washington are urged to discuss the new law with accounting professionals or tax counsel before the changes go into effect.