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Addressing The Risks of Contingent Labor


Due to recession-driven cost-cutting, the need to quickly expand and contract staff, many organizations have increased the utilization of temporary and


contract professionals. The contingent labor force in the U. S. has grown by more than 300,000 workers since July 2009, making it a prominent segment of today’s total workforce. In addition to representing an increasing percentage of the workforce, contingent workers today often fill key positions in such functions as finance, IT, operations, sales and marketing. With the increased influence and prominent role of contingent labor today, related security and workplace safety concerns must be addressed to reduce the exposure to legal liability and promote safety and security.


Case in point: In 2009 in Los Angeles, it was discovered that a convicted sex offender was employed as a temporary employee at a health clinic for a lengthy time period. When the clinic uncovered the criminal history of this temporary employee, they realized that no process was in place to determine how many of their 2,000-plus temporary employees had undergone criminal background checks. As a result, the clinic suspended the contract it had with its largest provider of temporary employees. In 2003 in New Jersey, a woman was stabbed to death by a home health care worker and it was discovered that the employee had previously been fired for misconduct by another agency. A jury awarded the victim’s family $40 million.


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Three Phrases—12 Words—to Avert Disaster Recently seven highly skilled professionals from human resources, law and compliance departments were asked to imagine their worst organizational nightmare—a disaster that would rock their brands, image and organization’s core.


All said that their nightmares would involve egregious conduct or a harmful product defect that could have been prevented if individuals close to the problems had spoken up and raised danger signals. Most organizational disasters are not the result of random, unpredictable acts. Instead, they arise from repetitive practices that are ignored or a few outrageous acts. Frequently hindsight reveals that complaints, were ignored or not acted on.


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21st Annual Threat Management Conference, August 16-19, Anaheim, CA


Upcoming Los Angeles, CA Live Facilitator Training Three Day Live Anger Management Facilitator Training Los Angeles, CA - August 24, 25, & 26, 2011


7th European Congress on Violence in Clinical Psychiatry, Prague, Czech Republic, 19 – 22, October, 2011, http://www.oudconsultancy.nl/MAILING/Prague/


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