[John Palasek]

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Due to a poor finish to last year, I have lost my key guy. He got tired of the up and down nature of this business here on Long Island and he's packed it in an gone back to Mexico. It's a shame because he's been my "go to" guy for about five years.

I will miss him.

I have decided to try another direction this year and that would be a Temporary Labor Service. I have been in contact with one already. They are a national company and their name is Labour Ready and they have a branch office in my county.

I haven't gone into too much detail with them yet but the basics are that labor will cost me $14.95/hr. and that includes all insurances, bookeeping and workmen's comp.
They handle all of the paperwork. I supply them with timesheets for each employee and they bill me after I'm finished with the worker.
They assure me that all of their temps have had background checks performed and they also either supply transportation or the worker has his own.

I can employ people on a daily, weekly or monthly basis and I can hire them outright if I like them enough to do so.

Have any of you ever used such services? If so, what were your experiences and what are the pitfalls?
It all seems pretty good so far and I need to actually visit with them, but it sounds pretty good.

I know of several businesses who have started with temps and moved on from there, in fact, when I was a teenager, I worked for a temp agency for about a month so I know a little bit about how it works.

I'll be looking around for permanent people, but if that fails, (it's a lousy labor market here), I'd like to be able to fall back on something like this.



Opinions?


Thanks!


-JP