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.
What is employee leasing? Under an employee leasing arrangement, you'll lease workers from another company who becomes the employer of record for certain obligations. You'll control the work the employees perform while the leasing company will issue their paycheck, report taxes, and manage benefits.
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.
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.
An employee leasing agency will provide you with temporary workers, but a PEO doesn't. In a co-employment arrangement, you supply and manage your own workforce, while the PEO helps you handle HR administration.
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.
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.
Employee leasing is a type of human resource outsourcing (HRO) with which employers terminate their employees and “lease” them back from a staffing agency.
Examples of work provided by Employee Leasing Companies are Payroll Services, Insurance, Tax Services, and various Personnel Services.