Employee leasing is an arrangement between a business and a staffing firm, who supplies workers on a project-specific or temporary basis. These employees work for the client business, but the leasing agency pays their salaries and handles all of the HR administration associated with their employment.
In an employee leasing arrangement, the leased employees work for you to get the job done, but they are not on payroll because they are not your employees. Legally, they are employed by the leasing agency and will return to their employer after completing the job you outsourced, or leased, them to do.
California law has stipulated the requirements for classifying an employee as a temporary agency employee. These requirements include the right of the agency to assign and reassign a worker, but the workers have the right to refuse an assignment and remain on the agency's hiring list.
PEO manages the employees, be it temporary or permanent, for payroll, benefits, and compensation, and also as per the agreement by the client. Employee leasing is just a temporary agreement based on the project period for the employer/client.
EL – An “employee leasing company” means a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, or other form of business entity engaged in an arrangement whereby the entity assigns its employees to a client and allocates the direction of and control over the leased employees between the leasing company and the client.
Employee leasing is also called temporary staffing. In an employee leasing arrangement, the employees work for the business while the staffing firm or leasing agency handles all human resources management associated with their employment, such as payroll and benefits administration.
Employee leasing and PEO are two terms that are often used interchangeably, but there are some differences between them: PEO is typically a long-term solution for businesses; employee leasing is usually a short-term solution. In PEO arrangements, the staff is employed by the client firm directly.
An arrangement in which a company's workers are employees of another company which pays them and manages other costs and responsibilities relating to them: Employee leasing might help a small business because it shifts many HR responsibilities on to another company.
Employee leasing is an arrangement between a business and a staffing firm, who supplies workers on a project-specific or temporary basis. These employees work for the client business, but the leasing agency pays their salaries and handles all of the HR administration associated with their employment.