In 2025, Republicans will control the House, Senate, and White House—for at least the next two years. However, getting legislation passed in the 119th Congress will be no easy task given the narrow margins of control in both chambers.

The ASA Legal Line monthly video series features a member of the association’s legal team and addresses critical legal, regulatory, and legislative topics that have direct implications for your business. In the latest installment, ASA vice president of government relations Toby Malara, Esq., addresses the post-election business climate.

Watch the latest ASA Legal Line video, then join the conversation on ASA Central. The ASA Legal Line monthly video series is sponsored by Essential StaffCARE, an ASA corporate partner.

Can you offer solutions for the challenges that staffing firms face today? ASA is looking for experts in the staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions industry to share their experience and expertise at the ASA annual convention and expo. The association also is looking for professionals in business, workforce solutions, workplace management, and other disciplines pertinent to the staffing industry to present ASA webinars.

Staffing World^® 2025 takes place Oct. 6–8 in Orlando; slots are available for breakout sessions (60- to 75-minute interactive presentations) and Speed Talks (10-minute talks on topics important to the industry). As a presenter for ASA, you will have the opportunity to reach out to industry professionals and build lasting connections.

Proposals for Staffing World breakout sessions are due Jan. 31, and proposals for Staffing World Speed Talks are due May 31. Proposals for ASA webinars are accepted throughout the year. For more information and to start your submission, visit americanstaffing.net/presenters.

Do you have questions about legal or legislative issues affecting your business? ASA vice president of government affairs Toby Malara and ASA general counsel Brittany Sakata will be answering members’ questions during an “Ask the Experts” session on ASA Central—it takes place Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2–3:30 p.m. Eastern time.

If you have specific topics you’d like the experts to address, you can submit them in advance.

The ASA board of directors and staff welcome the following new members, which joined during the week ending Nov. 17.

Conquest Healthcare
Torrance, CA
Naztec Staffing
West Palm Beach, FL
RMG Staffing
Miami, FL

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:

• Regulations for health care recruiting
• Sample staffing agreements
• Staffing World^® session recordings available

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.

Technology is advancing at a rapid pace, providing innovative new ways to source, engage, select, and hire candidates. Navigating and understanding the technology landscape, however, is a challenge. ASA and Talent Tech Labs ran an industry-wide survey to understand how staffing firms are utilizing technology and how satisfied they are with specific tools and vendors.

Check out the results for help benchmarking your firm’s use of technology and mapping a technology roadmap. There’s an infographic that highlights the most important strategic findings from that survey—including overall industry adoption, satisfaction with vendors, the average number of technology tools that staffing firms use, and even what the actual industry “tech stack” looks like today.

Don’t miss tomorrow’s ASA webinar “Staffing STATS—The 2024 Staffing Industry Playbook: Data-Driven Insights to Navigate Disruption Now and Plan for 2025,” 2–3 p.m. Eastern time.

Every year, ASA produces an economic analysis of the staffing industry, and this year’s Staffing Industry Playbook is bigger and better than ever—with more than double the data and an associated website that features downloadable graphics, videos, and more. Join ASA chief economist Noah Yosif for a strategic look at the data and analysis in the 2024 Staffing Industry Playbook.

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.

ASA—in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy—has developed a website of tools to help employers make their businesses more inclusive for talent with disabilities. The site includes resources on best practices for recruiting, hiring, retaining, and advancing talent with disabilities; what employers need to know about managing a diverse workforce that includes people with disabilities; and ways employers can promote disability inclusion in their internal and external communications.

It also provides information on commonsense workplace changes that result in more digitally accessible workplaces. This is another initiative in the joint effort between ASA and ODEP, which signed an alliance in May 2020 to advance the employment of people with disabilities in the staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions industries.

Visit the Disability Employment Resources for Staffing Firms page at americanstaffing.net/odep.

Every year, ASA produces an economic analysis of the staffing industry, published as a special issue of Staffing Success magazine. This year’s Staffing Industry Playbook is bigger and better than ever, with more than double the data and an associated website that features downloadable graphics, videos, and more. It shows you how to interpret recent economic trends affecting the U.S. staffing industry—and how you can utilize staffing and economic data to make smart decisions and projections for your business.

Given the U.S. economy and staffing sales trends this past year, it’s more important than ever to get ahead of opportunities for growth. Join ASA chief economist Noah Yosif for a strategic look at the data and analysis in the 2024 Staffing Industry Playbook during the ASA webinar “Staffing STATS—The 2024 Staffing Industry Playbook: Data-Driven Insights to Navigate Disruption Now and Plan for 2025.” It takes place Thursday, Nov. 21, 2–3 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.

Looking to enhance your new hire process and your team’s knowledge of the staffing industry? Need to train new hires or offer refresher courses to seasoned team members? ASA has developed a program of onboarding courses specifically designed for staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions professionals.

You can purchase and assign courses to your team and track their progress using the ASA learning management system, ASA Learn. The online course modules include “Introduction to the Staffing Industry,” “Fundamentals of Sales,” and “Fundamentals of Recruiting.” Modules are available as a full set or a la carte. To learn more, visit learn.americanstaffing.net.