Supervising people can be challenging, and your clients must think carefully about how to manage temporary employees. The best managers know it’s essential to establish a foundation of mutual respect, but this isn’t easy when dealing with an employee temporarily. The transient nature of the relationship might make it difficult to assert authority and delegate tasks. Luckily, a few strategies for managing temporary employees can make this task easier.
Effective Methods to Manage Temporary Employees
Help your clients find staffing general liability insurance and offer the following four tips to help them optimize their efficacy as a manager.
Provide the Right Staffing General Liability Insurance
When advising your clients on the best management strategies, you must also make them aware of the liabilities that can accompany a temporary employment relationship. These liabilities include allegations of unfair hiring practices, wrongful termination, or employee misclassification. Dealing with temporary employees may even heighten some of these liabilities. Remind your clients that they need a general liability insurance policy to minimize these liabilities and continue managing their employees safely.
Refer to Temporary Employees Respectfully
Too often, employers make the mistake of referring to temporary employees dismissively or barely bothering to learn their names. In addition to the apparent lack of respect that this reveals, failing to address temporary employees appropriately can compromise their work performance. It will undermine a manager’s effectiveness and make it more difficult to accomplish tasks as a team. Managers must avoid this pitfall and treat all employees the same regardless of who they are, how long they’ve been there, or whether they’re temporary or permanent.
Provide Them With the Right Resources for Success
Managers must also provide all staff members the resources they need to do their job successfully. For example, if a temporary employee does not receive adequate training, it’s unfair to expect them to meet performance standards. Similarly, if specific equipment is necessary for employees to complete their job, temporary employees must have equitable access to this equipment. If temporary employees don’t have the right resources, they won’t be able to meet client expectations — and the whole team will likely struggle as a result.
Cover Your Clients With Staffing General Liability Insurance
The aforementioned advice can certainly set managers on the right path. The best favor you can do for your clients, though, is to connect them with a staffing general liability insurance policy that meets their needs. Partner with your staffing agency clients to help them identify liabilities and find the right coverage. This coverage can shield your clients from risks when recruiting and staffing temporary employees, allowing agencies to maintain profits and minimize problems.
About World Wide Specialty Programs
For the last 50 years, World Wide Specialty Programs has dedicated itself to providing the optimal products and solutions for the staffing industry. As the only insurance firm to be an ASA commercial liability partner, we are committed to that partnership and committed to using our knowledge of the industry to provide staffing firms with the best possible coverage. For more information about Staffing Professional Liability Insurance or any other coverage, we have available to protect your staffing business, give us a call at (877) 256-0468 to speak with one of our representatives.