It is estimated that 2-3 million Americans are currently benefiting from a co-employment relationship. The average company in the industry has grown more than 20 percent per year for each of the last six years, according to a survey of the National Association of Professional Employer Organization members. The industry generates approximately $51 billion in gross revenues annually and professional employers have an exceptionally high client retention rate due to strong client and employee satisfaction.

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What are the symptoms and treatment of swine flu?

Swine flu in humans resembles seasonal flu, with symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some people experience diarrhea and vomiting as well. Like regular flu, swine flu can in some cases cause serious respiratory problems or worsening of chronic medical problems.

Swine flu can be treated with some of the same drugs that are used for regular flu. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends the use of the antiviral medications oseltamivir (Tamiflu®) or zanamivir (Relenza®). The medications work best if they are started within two days of the onset of symptoms.

How does swine flu spread and can it be prevented? Is there a vaccine?

People can spread swine flu when they have symptoms and possibly as long as seven days after they first become ill, even if symptoms have subsided. It is also thought that children can remain contagious for an even longer period of time. There is currently no vaccine for prevention of swine flu, and vaccines used for seasonal flu provide no protective effect for the current H1N1 strain of swine flu. As a result, people should follow sensible preventive measures, like these recommended by the CDC:

• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it. Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective.
• Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
• If you get sick with influenza, stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Viruses spread this way.

The CDC has also recommended that people who live in or have recently traveled to areas where swine flu cases have been reported and who develop flu symptoms consider seeking care from their health care providers. More serious symptoms require emergency medical care.

In children, such symptoms include:
• Fast breathing or trouble breathing
• Bluish skin color
• Not drinking enough fluids
• Not waking up or not interacting
• Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held
• Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
• Fever with a rash

In adults, such symptoms include:
• Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
• Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen
• Sudden dizziness
• Confusion
• Severe or persistent vomiting

Swine flu is NOT spread by food, such as pork, which is safe when handled and prepared appropriately.

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Any business can find value in a relationship with an HR Outsourcing company. An average client company is a business with 17 worksite employees. Increasingly, larger businesses also are finding value in a co-employment relationships because HR Outsourcing companies (ESG republic) offers robust web-based HR technologies and expertise in HR management. Additionally, the extensive network and buying power of HR Outsourcing companies (ESG republic) large employee base will provide companies with the highest quality employee benefits at the lowest possible price.

So whether your company has 5 employees or 100, your company can take advantage of HR Outsourcing companies (ESG republic) abilities to help your company grow and be successful.

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Co-Employment

A co-employment arrangement involves all or a significant number of the client's existing worksite employees in a long-term, non-project related, employment relationship. ESG republic brings services to the client, including the management of human resources, employee benefits, payroll and worker's compensation. ESG republic assumes employer responsibility for employment tax, benefit plans and other human resource purposes. With an ESG republic co-employer relationship, client companies make a long-term investment in their workers, because ESG republic provides access to health insurance, retirement savings plans, and other critical employee benefits for their worksite employees. If the ESG republic relationship is terminated, the co-employees will cease to work for ESG republic but will continue as employees of the client.

Employee Leasing

By comparison, a leasing or staffing service supplies new workers on a temporary or project-specific basis. These leased employees return to the staffing service for reassignment after completion of their work with the client company. Some would define employee leasing as a supplemental, temporary employment arrangement where one or more workers are assigned to a customer for a fixed period of time, often for a specific project.

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Once a client company contracts with ESG republic, we will then co-employ the client's worksite employees. In the arrangement among ESG republic, a worksite employee and a client company, there exists a co-employment relationship in which both ESG republic and client company have an employment relationship with the worker.

ESG republic and the client company share and allocate responsibilities and liabilities. ESG republic assumes much of the responsibility and liability for the business of employment:

• such as risk management
• human resource management
• and payroll and employee tax compliance.

The client company retains responsibility for and manages product development and production, business operations, marketing, sales, and service. ESG republic and the client will share certain responsibilities for employment law compliance. As a co-employer, ESG republic will provide a complete human resource and benefit package for worksite employees.

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