Professional Employment Organization

[Plane]

The PEO is the logical extension to outsourcing payroll processing. The way a PEO works is simple: A business shifts its employees from direct employment to the PEO. The business then no longer directly employs anyone, but contracts its employees back from the PEO — for a fee, of course. In return, the PEO not only assumes the administration of payroll, but handling of benefits, the creation of HR policy, and all of the overhead thus entailed. The PEO, being effectively a national employer, can ...."

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  How can small business cope with big government?

   By having no direct employees.

   A sad state of affairs , but  a big opportunity to those well prepared to control a payroll.

[kimba1]

How different is that from contract workers? Doesn't it still means technically they can't give orders.

[Plane]

  It is a sort of contract workers.

Perhaps the future of all our small business is contract workers.

[kimba1]

contract means you lose full comtrol of these non-employees and can`t fire but can remove them.

[Plane]

Probably true.

Some civil service roles have been replaced with contractors.

These contractors generally have a pretty good benefits package , but not as good as a civil servants , then they get a better pay rate and much less job security.

The contractors I work with mostly either try to convert to Civil service employment or keep looking for a better contract position.

A civil servant can keep the same job a lot longer.

[kimba1]

Im civil service union part time. Full time is quite nice but if you have a union who are lousy negotiators you can lose some serious pay and get seriously screwed when retirement approuchs

[Plane]

Oh yea!

Or go five years between raises!`

Or loose a whole paycheck because the President and Congress have to prove they are tough.

I suppose it might be worse if we had no union, but it isn't hard to imagine better.

[kimba1]

Actually we do need unions but unfortunately they changed into something thats barely useable. Unions potentially could of evolved into watchdogs to prevent abuses in the work places. We have laws to prevent it but hardly enough people to enforce it. It's easy to say thats against osha laws but doesn't means they won't get away from it.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Unions are what their members make them, The officers are elected, and it is certainly not hard to get elected shop steward in any union I have ever belonged to, which include the NEA, the AFL-CIO and the UTD.

Union members make about 15 to 20% more than non union workers in the same jobs.

There are companies where the management treats for workers decently and no union is needed. But not many. Teachers without unions get screwed.