The newest professional recognition program for ASA member companies, introduced in 2018, is the ASA Elevate Awards. This professional recognition program celebrates the most innovative and effective work-based learning programs designed specifically for temporary and contract employees.

If your company has work-based learning programs that train, reskill, and upskill temporary and contract talent, submit an entry today. The deadline for all ASA award program submissions is May 1. To learn more and apply, visit americanstaffing.net/awards.

ASA Central—the dynamic online community just for staffing professionals—is home to more than 20,000 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:

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  Requesting emergency paid sick leave
• Staying connected with your company
• True costs of retaining employees

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.

All staffing professionals and their clients need to know the facts about co-employment—the relationship between a staffing firm and its client in which each has legal rights and duties with respect to the same employees. Help your employees and your clients by giving them the book that explains this evolving area of federal employment law.

The ASA book Co-Employment: Employer Liability Issues in Third-Party Staffing Arrangements was revised in 2019. Now in its ninth edition, and available in print and as an ebook, it explains how staffing firms and clients can mitigate employment-related risks. View the contents and an excerpt online at americanstaffing.net.

As your staffing firm faces new challenges and tries to answer unexpected questions, get insight from industry peers within your sector of the industry—participate in a sector-specific peer networking call to discuss top-of-mind challenges and devise solutions. Calls will be facilitated by volunteers from ASA section communities (participants will not receive official legal updates or guidance regarding Covid-19).

Register for

• Health care section: Thursday, April 9, 1–2 p.m. Eastern time
• Office–administrative section: Tuesday, April 14, 1–2 p.m. Eastern time
• Search and placement section: Wednesday, April 15, 1–2 p.m. Eastern time
• Engineering, IT, and scientific section: Thursday, April 16, 1–2 p.m. Eastern time

ASA sections provide resources, webinars, town hall forums, and sector-specific news for firms specializing in engineering, IT, and scientific; health care; industrial; office–administrative; and professional–managerial staffing; and search and placement. To join a section, update your profile on ASA Central.

Looking for real-time data on staffing employment? The ASA Staffing Index reports weekly changes in the number of people employed in temporary and contract work. The data will help your firm evaluate its performance against a national metric on both a weekly and long-term basis.

Participants receive a weekly email with the results of the weekly survey, including figures by company size, and access to historical data and new dynamic charts. These data, which are not available anywhere else, allow staffing firms to compare how their business is doing on a weekly basis relative to similarly sized firms in the industry. There are no fees to participate in the three-question survey.

Sign up to participate in the ASA Staffing Index and receive the most up-to-date information about the staffing industry.

ASA has partnered with Kantola Training Solutions to provide a full-service, cost-effective solution for the harassment prevention training needs of staffing companies.

It’s designed to fulfill local and state requirements from New York to California, and more. The training was co-developed with Littler, the world’s largest labor and employment law firm.

It’s easy to administer and keeps records for you—it can even track the time an employee spends on training. Visit americanstaffing.net/harassmentprevention to learn more.

The ASA board of directors and staff welcome the following new members, which joined during the week ending March 29.

11th Hour Staffing Inc.
Tipp City, OH
The Arnold Group – A Human Resource Co.
Wichita, KS
Bayview Medical Staffing Corp.
New York, NY
Coastal Employment
Hilton Head Island, SC
CSL Staffing
Escondido, CA
Demand Staff Inc.
Brownwood, TX
Nationwide Skilled Trades Inc.
Houma, LA
OPA Staffing
Roswell, GA
Results Staffing Inc.
Dallas, TX
Treo Staffing
Madisonville, LA
WSi Healthcare Professionals Inc.
Greenwood Village, CO

It can be difficult to know who to promote when a branch needs a manager. Too often, companies promote for tenure rather than for talent—increasing the likelihood that the new manager will burn out, other employees will leave, customer service will suffer, and profits will drop. Learn how to identify and develop strong leaders so you can make the best advancement decisions during the ASA webinar “Leadership and Culture Building—Focus on the Front Line to Improve the Bottom Line,” brought to you by the Women In Leadership interest group. It takes place Tuesday, April 7, 3–4 p.m. Eastern time.

All ASA webinars are free for ASA members, and most qualify for continuing education hours toward ASA certification renewal. To learn more and to register, visit americanstaffing.net.