The owner of two temporary placement agencies in Pennsylvania has been charged with violating federal tax code. Kim Yoeun allegedly failed to collect $229,000 in employment taxes and if convicted, could face up to 5 years in jail, 3 years of parole, and a $100,000 fine.
Yoeun’s agencies, Lancaster Packers and BC Farm Resources, supplied workers for low-skill jobs such as agricultural work, packaging and assembly work at client businesses for cash wages. Yoeun told businesses that his agencies would file the employment taxes but prosecutors claim that he did not pay these taxes, many IRS forms were falsified, and the agency’s workers were not supplied with the appropriate paperwork.
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Senior executive search firm Marshall-Alan Associates is being sued by Amsterdam Hospitality Group (AHG) in the New York Supreme Court for allegedly breaching contract and committing fraud. The hotel chain alleges that Marshall-Alan have been charging lucrative placement fees for senior members of staff and then, shortly thereafter, have been placing the same personnel at different hospitality companies in order to claim an additional placement fee. 
The UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GGHQ) reports that cyber attacks now join international terrorism at the top of the threat list. And it’s not just retailers and multi-national organisations under attack by cyber criminals. High-profile attacks are happening left and right but it is thought that 2012 will see a change of tactics by hackers, who will start going after smaller companies with little or no cyber security in place. 
After just a few months in effect, the Agency Worker Regulations are already causing a few headaches. Just a few weeks ago, around 200 people showed up to support a strike held by several Adecco-placed employees from Argos, Burton-on-Trent. The agency workers decided to go on strike just before Christmas over what the union Unite called “pay apartheid.”
The new UK Agency Worker Regulations came into effect on October 1st. In response, CFC has made some key updates to its recruitment policy (RES) wording.
The Agency Worker Regulations which came into effect on October 1st are already kicking up a few issues. The REC reports that recruitment agencies are getting asked increasingly by clients to adopt Regulation 10, also known as the Swedish Derogation model, as a way to get around some of the new regulations. Many clients don’t understand the complexities of this process nor that specific requirements must be met for this to be possible. 
