Playbooks

When you place a W-2 temp at a client site, you and the client can both be the employer in the eyes of the law. Here is what co-employment really means, the five places it bites a staffing desk, the 2026 rule changes that just moved the line, and the contract and onboarding paper trail that keeps the liability where it belongs.

A plain-English compliance checklist for staffing agencies running background checks: the exact FCRA disclosure and adverse-action steps, the I-9 timing rule that is different for staffing, when E-Verify is mandatory, and copy-and-paste candidate notices.

A loose phone screen is where good orders quietly die. Here is the full six-move phone screen script for staffing recruiters, the exact qualifying and fit questions to ask, the questions EEOC rules say you cannot, and the scorecard that makes every screen repeatable.

You post job ads for a living, across state lines, at volume. That is exactly what pay transparency laws now regulate, and in some states the staffing agency, not the client, is the one on the hook. Here is which states require a salary range in the posting, what it costs to get it wrong, and the job-ad copy you can use today.

Automated screening is now regulated. Here is the plain-English guide to NYC Local Law 144, Illinois HB 3773, the AI Video Interview Act, Colorado's delayed AI law and the federal rules, with the exact candidate notices you can copy and use today.

Every applicant who lands in your Indeed or ZipRecruiter inbox and waits for a human to copy them into your CRM is a placement you're about to lose. Here's the step-by-step playbook to connect both job boards to GoHighLevel so every Houston candidate flows in, gets an instant text, and books an interview — no manual re-keying.