BONNEY's New Website and New BONNEY Blog!

Posted: Tue, Jun 25th, 2013 11:00:00 am

Welcome to BONNEY Staffing Center's new website and new BONNEY Blog!  We are thrilled that you stopped by and are proud to share a little bit about our company.  We hope that you will continue on to explore our site and view more of what BONNEY has to offer!

Not only is BONNEY a "WBENC" certified company, a "2012 Best of Staffing" and "2012 Best Places to Work in Maine" award winner, we are also a locally-owned, locally-operated staffing firm servicing companies of all sizes via 8 branch offices throughout Maine and seacoast New Hampshire!  BONNEY caters to the specific needs of our clients, offering creative, innovative solutions for the most difficult staffing challenges; we certify our key management and recruiting staff to be industry experts; we offer benefits to our field employees, and a strong support system to ensure successful placements all around!  So, whether you are a job seeker applying for work, or a prospective or returning client company, with our broad geographic reach and wide range of staffing services, you can confidently consider BONNEY your #1 "Partner in Job Placement!"

We are really excited to share with you our new website, our new look, and best of all, our newest mode of communication at BONNEY...our blog!  Stay tuned for industry information, position updates, company events, success stories and more!

We look forward to working with you!

The BONNEY Staffing Executive Team

Joel Gratwick, CSP, CEOAnnette LeFebvre, Executive Vice PresidentDonna Dumond, CSP, Vice PresidentKelly Jaeger, CSP, Vice President

Medicaid Expansion Letter from BONNEY Staffing CEO

Posted: Tue, Jun 11th, 2013 11:23:25 am

BONNEY Staffing's CEO, Joel Gratwick, and Treasurer, Rebecca Gratwick, wrote the following letter on Maine's Medicaid expansion, which was recently printed in the "Letters to the Editor" section of both the Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News.  Please learn more about BONNEY Staffing's work to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at Affordable Care Act (ACA) Compliance

  

Medicaid Expansion Plan Will Aid Businesses, Jobless

The May 24 Portland Press Herald editorial imploring Republican lawmakers to override Gov. LePage's veto of L.D.1546 ("Our View: Legislators should override Medicaid veto") should make all legislators sit up and take notice. If the bill comes to him again, they should ask themselves whether backing the governor on his future vetoes of the bill is good for Maine people.

We all, including our governor, need to accept that the Affordable Care Act is currently the law of the land. Many of us in the business community are already calculating how we will shoulder our share of the "shared responsibility," especially if we want to put 48,600 unemployed Mainers back to work.

Under the ACA law, if an employer with 50 or more workers offers insurance coverage but cannot afford to offer an affordable and compliant product (an impossible task with low-wage, startup-type jobs), the employer will have to pay a $3,000 nondeductible penalty for each employee who then goes to the exchange for enhanced insurance and receives a federal subsidy.

However – and this is why the Medicaid issue concerns many employers – if those same employees are covered under the Medicaid expansion, their employers would be exempted completely from the employer's responsibility.

Simply put, without passage of the Medicaid expansion bill, many Maine businesses will be shouldering more than their share of the "shared responsibility."

It is very unfortunate for the Medicaid expansion issue to get caught up in partisan politics and ideological disputes, when the situation will have a financial effect on so many people in need and businesses struggling to hire thousands more workers.

One important way for a governor and legislators who champion improving the business climate in Maine is to move forward with expanding Medicaid to more people and averting stiff penalties on many employers.

Joel B. Gratwick, CSP

CEO, Bonney Staffing Center

Rebecca H. Gratwick, CPA, MST

Treasurer, Bonney Staffing Center

South Portland

Why Employees Stay (and Why They Go)

Posted: Sun, Jun 9th, 2013 12:03:08 pm

Here's a recent article from Inc. magazine that we at BONNEY thought was interesting:

Why Employees Stay (and Why They Go)

by Janine Popick, Inc. Magazine, June 2013

What makes employees stay for the long haul when they can get higher pay by jumping around? The answer may surprise you.

As business owners, do we reward loyal employees to stay the course, or is jumping ship the way to get ahead? And if it's the latter, is this a business model for success or failure?  As the CEO of my online marketing company, VerticalResponse, I've spent the last 12 years leading and growing our business. We've had employees come and go throughout that journey. As I look at my team today, I'm reminded that there are a fair number of folks who have stuck with us from the early days...

Every company has a culture, but on top of that culture is the DNA of the employees that are drawn to it. If you've got a group of employees who 1) are drawn to your company and what you do for the same reasons, and 2) have a shared understanding of your vision and know how their roles affect that, then you're doing something right.  And it's these kind of employees that are usually in it for the long haul.... In a 2012 Workforce Retention study by the American Psychological Association, 67 percent of Americans cited the reason they stay at their jobs was because "I enjoy the work I do."  Surprised? Pay was down on the charts as the No. 3 reason with 59 percent of respondents. 

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