While leased employees are legally employed by a PEO, they work under the day-to-day management and supervision of the leasing business — much like any other employee. This generally gives the leasing business control over how they spend their time, which tools they use to perform their work, their deadlines, and more.
While leased employees are legally employed by a PEO, they work under the day-to-day management and supervision of the leasing business — much like any other employee.
A PEO, or professional employer organization, has a different relationship with client companies. Instead of being a firm that leases employees to their clients, a PEO becomes an employer of record for the client's employees. This is known as a co-employment agreement.
While every state recognizes them as employers, there are no uniform laws for PEOs across all 50 states.
Drawbacks of employee leasing Less control: One of the greatest risks of employee leasing is that you're delegating an important part of your business to an outside company that doesn't know your business as well as you do. You lose control of your processes, systems and benefits.
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.
When you lease employees, you're typically not responsible for deducting taxes from their wages or paying unemployment tax. The employee leasing agency withholds the necessary payroll taxes and files them with government agencies.
Employee leasing is anytime you enter into a contract with a staffing or employee leasing agency to lend you an employee to perform work for your company. Work responsibilities are typical to those of a regular employee at your business, such as customer service, executive assistant, marketing, and so on.