Decreasing unemployment rates and strong job growth are expected to encourage people to start looking for work again, especially temporary worker positions. In February, the unemployment rate fell to 8.9 percent and the private sector added 222,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Jodi Chavez, senior vice president for Accounting Principles, a division of…

As the national unemployment steadily continues to decrease, several states are noting that companies are beginning to transition temporary workers into full-time positions. In Illinois, more than 168,000 temporary workers were employed by payroll outsourcing services in December, the Rockford Register Star reports. There has been growing interest in temporary workers as a means to…

The home improvement industry often takes on large numbers of seasonal and temporary workers from spring through Labor Day - its busiest season of the year - and an increasing number of these workers are being offered full-time positions. Home improvement stores across the country are expected to hire more than 100,000 workers during the…

HR administrators should educate their organizations' managers about the temporary workforce in order to ensure they are well-treated and respected during their time at the company. Lance Richards, senior director and global practice leader of the human resources consulting practice Kelly Outsourcing and Consulting Group, notes in an article for Human Resource Executive magazine that…

Many companies use payrolling services to "try-out" entry-level workers before hiring them full-time. Tim Slattery, founder of Corporate Fulfillment Systems, didn't anticipate the trouble he would face with new hires, some of whom would demonstrate unprofessional behavior that didn't show up during the interview, Human Resource Executive reports. Slattery told the source that he'd have…

The Yoh Index of Technology Wages, a benchmark of wages for temporary workers in the information technology, life sciences, engineering, healthcare, aerospace and defense fields, found that wages for temporary workers increased in the fourth quarter of 2010 after a long slump. Hourly wages rose 4.3 percent from November to December following consistent declines throughout…

U.S. employers are planning to dole out the largest pay raises since the beginning of the financial crisis, according to several experts' predictions. The consultancy Towers Watson found that companies expect to offer 3 percent merit increases for 2011, up from the 2.7 percent increases awarded to employees on average in 2010. Before the financial…

Temporary and contract workers are being hired at increasing rates across the U.S. as more businesses seek the assistance of payroll outsourcing services. Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, told the Des Moines Register that after a recession, temporary jobs tend to increase first, because they provide businesses the opportunity to "test…

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently updated the I-9 handbook for employers, which addresses topics that were found confusing in the old version, including how to handle name changes, misspellings and correcting mistakes on I-9 forms. HR administration should take note of new additions to the handbook, including stipulations requiring employers to wait until after…

The recession kicked off a lengthy period of high unemployment rates that are not expected to return to normal levels for a few years. The Wall Street Journal polled leading economists, who predict that the unemployment rate at the end of 2011 will be at a historically high rate of 8.6 percent. The strain of…