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NEW YORK, March 9th, 2018 – TemPositions Logistics, a division of The TemPositions Group of Companies, one of the country’s oldest and largest regional staffing firms with operations in the New York Tri State area and Northern California, has acquired the assets of Access Staffing Light Industrial Division. TemPositions Logistics specializes in providing assemblers; driver’s helpers; general laborers; inventory clerks; machine operators; mailroom staff; maintenance workers; picker/packers; shipping and receiving, stock, storeroom and warehouse staff; and other similar workers to the Tri-State area.
The internal staff of the Access Light Industrial Division, including Joanathan Neira, Melissa Riquelme and Ana Uribe will be joining TemPositions Logistics, and relocating to the TemPositions offices at 20 Broadhollow Road in Melville, NY. Fran Baker has been appointed Managing Director of the division. Phone numbers will remain the same.
“This acquisition expands our capabilities in this segment, allowing us to better service our existing customers. In addition, the state-of-the-art systems we have developed internally will bring a higher level of service to the Access Staffing Light Industrial client base.” said TemPositions’ President/ CEO, James A. Essey regarding Access Staffing Light Industrial Division.
The transaction will offer current Access clients TemPositions’ award winning suite of electronic tools which makes doing business so much easier versus competitors, including online ordering, electronic time capture and approvals, automated billing, and 24/7 reporting. Besides technology tools, previous Access Staffing field employees will be offered TemPositions’ expanded benefits package including paid vacations and holidays as well as ACA compliant health coverage.
About TemPositions
The TemPositions Group of Companies is the New York tri-state area’s leading provider of temporary, direct hire and temp-to-hire staff. Since 1962, TemPositions has built an award-winning reputation for unprecedented service to both employees and clients. Multiple specialized divisions offer applicants a wide range of assignments in fields including office administration, computer networking/IT, light industrial, legal, accounting and finance, human resources, design/creative, hospitality/special events, health care and teaching. The Company is headquartered in New York and services the New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Northern California markets through various offices. www.tempositions.com
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Staffing 100 Award: TemPositions President/CEO Jim Essey Wins
James Essey, TemPositions President/CEO has been named to Staffing Industry Analysts’ “Staffing 100” List for the fourth time in seven years (no list was released in 2015). The list recognizes leaders that have made a difference not only in the staffing industry but also in the lives of the millions of people they have helped find work.
Jim’s passion for the staffing industry in unparalleled. In the 30+ years, Jim has worked in the firm, he has grown it to become one of the largest regional players in the industry, offering a full service capability to his clients through separately managed practice areas providing numerous skill sets including logistics and light assembly, hospitality, office support, health care, education, accounting and finance, HR, IT and legal. Each of these businesses is supported through numerous technological innovations which move the business forward by improving the customer and employee experience and differentiating it from the competition.
Jim strongly believes in giving back to the industry through volunteerism. He currently volunteers his time as chair of the American Staffing Association’s legal and legislative committee and its public policy advocacy task force. He is also a past chairman of the ASA and past president of the New York Staffing Association. Through his leadership positions Essey has shaped testimony in such areas as New York state’s proposed regulations regarding pay cards, New York City’s regulations on when criminal background questions can be asked and New York City’s recent bill prohibiting employers from discussing an applicant’s salary history. He requested concessions on the new San Francisco law that will require employers to pay up to 45% of an employee’s weekly salary for family medical leave.
The Staffing 100 is chosen after a thorough review of nominations by Staffing Industry Analysts’ team and advisers.
About Staffing Industry Analysts
Staffing Industry Analysts is the global advisor on contingent work. Known for its independent and objective insights, the company’s proprietary research, award-winning content, data, support tools, publications, and executive conferences provide a competitive edge to decision-makers who supply and buy temporary staffing. In addition to temporary staffing, Staffing Industry Analysts also covers these related staffing service sectors: third-party placement, outplacement, and staff leasing (PEOs). Founded in 1989 and acquired by Crain Communications Inc in 2008, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in London, England.
About TemPositions
Founded in 1962, The TemPositions Group of Companies is one of the country’s largest regional full-service staffing agencies offering temporary, contract, temp-to-hire, direct hire and recruitment process outsourcing services. We serve the New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Northern California markets.
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TemPositions’ President/CEO, Jim Essey Discusses the Origins of the ASA
In this brief video, Jim Essey speaks on the role TemPositions’ Founder and Chairman Dick Essey had in the formation of the American Staffing Association as well as how the association’s name came to be the ASA.
Transcript:
I’ve been involved in some way with the industry since I was nine years old and that was when my dad started a staffing business in 1962, and that was around the time that there was some thought that maybe the industry needed some kind of a body that would help them they wanted to have a voice with legislators so they were looking for sort of small players who in their local markets with no legislators. So they looked at firms like my dad’s. Even back then he had just started so they asked him to get involved there are few other firms that they all got involved and they sort of had this concept of having both big players and small players together around a table talking about issues and then advancing the interests of the industry with legislators and so that was sort of the early start of what became ASA. It’s gone through a number of name changes over the years it was first called ITS: the institute for temporary services, a sort of a strange name, and so then they called it NATS. And NATS at that time was the National Association of Temporary Services spelled and 80s but then in the literature people started talking about this thing called staffing so National Association of temporary services didn’t have staffing in it. So someone came up with the great idea, well we’ll just add another s and then we can become the national association of temporary and staffing services. Genius, problem solved then I remembe,r I think it was Kathy Hanratty who is the chairman of the board realized we really need to rebrand ourselves with a different name and we became the American staffing Association and we’ve been that way ever since.
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