Industry guide

Managed IT diligence for staffing agencies.

Agencies hold Social Security numbers, work-authorization documents, and payroll data for every placed worker. A staffing agency's files are an identity trove larger than its own headcount suggests, federal employment-verification records carry their own retention rules, and payroll fraud aims straight at this industry.

What binds you

The frameworks

I-9 / employment-verification recordkeepingThe frameworkFederal retention and inspection duties for work-authorization records.
State employment-agency rulesThe frameworkLicensing and record obligations that vary by state.

The industry question

How are candidate identity documents stored, access-controlled, and eventually destroyed?

It belongs on the checklist, in writing, next to the other 18.

The method

The bench, applied

Observe

The tactics

Lock-in contracts, stripped quotes, and exit traps, documented in the industry's own words with checkable sources.

See the tacticsAdapt

The standard

Fourteen marks of a fair managed IT agreement, stated plainly and provider-neutral.

See the standardProtect

The benchmark

The four-step method and the 18 questions to ask in writing, with a printable checklist.

Use the benchmark

Your state

Staffing Agencies, state by state

The same diligence with your state's verification layer: the breach statute, the entity search, the regulator.

Choose your state

Educational reference, not legal advice. Frameworks are summarized at the framework level; confirm specifics for your situation with counsel or the primary source.