FAQ

Once you contract with Go Further Group, we become the co-employer of your worksite employees. Go Further Group shares and allocates responsibilities and liabilities with you, such as employment law compliance, but we assume much of the responsibility and liability for the business of employment, including risk management, human resource management, payroll, and employee tax compliance. You continue to be solely responsible for management of product development and production, business operations, marketing, sales, and service. As a co-employer, we provide a complete human resource and benefit package for worksite employees.

No. You retain ownership of the company and control over its operations. As co-employers, Go Further Group and you, as our client, will contractually share or allocate employer responsibilities and liabilities. Go Further Group will generally only assume responsibilities and liabilities associated with a “general” employer for purposes of administration, payroll, taxes, and benefits. You will continue to have responsibility for worksite safety and compliance. We will be responsible for payroll and employment taxes and will maintain employee records. Because Go Further Group may also be responsible for workers’ compensation, we also focus on and improve safety and compliance. In general, we will focus on employment-related issues, and you will be responsible for actual business operations.

Like a leasing situation, a temporary staffing service recruits and hires employees and assigns them to clients to support or supplement the client’s workforce in special work situations, such as employee absences, temporary skill shortages, or seasonal workloads. These workers are traditionally only a small portion of the client’s workforce. Go Further Group does not supply workers to worksites. We co-employ existing permanent workforces and provide services and benefits to both the worksite employer and the employees.

Who is responsible for the employees’ wages and employment taxes?

As the employer for employment tax and employee benefits purposes, Go Further Group assumes responsibility and liability for the payment of state unemployment taxes, and most states recognize the management company as the responsible entity. In those states that require the management company to report unemployment tax liability under its clients’ account numbers, the management company can still manage this responsibility for you.

As co-employers, both the client and Go Further Group have compliance obligations. However, Go Further Group provides worksite employees with coverage under many employment laws and regulations, including federal, state, and local discrimination laws, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Age Discrimination in Employment Act, ADA, HIPAA, Equal Pay Act, and COBRA. In many cases, these laws would not apply to workers at small businesses without the management company relationship, since many statutes have exemptions based upon the number of workers in a workforce.