Wolverine Staffing Services

We provide medical personnel to leading hospitals, clinics and nursing care facilities throughout southeast Michigan.

We are available to meet your staffing needs seven days a week, twenty four hours a day. We will invest the time and resources necessary to understand your unique staffing requirements.

Please contact us with the nursing skills you require and we will contact you with the resumes of the candidates that meet your requirements.

Contingent Staffing

Wolverine Medical charges a flat, hourly fee for each contingent medical employee. There are no hidden costs, no service fees, no payroll accounting or hiring expenses. Wolverine pays the employee’s wages, benefits, all payroll taxes and unemployment insurance. All Wolverine Medical staff are covered by workers’ compensation, professional errors and omissions and general liability Insurance We require proof of a current State of Michigan medical license, a State of Michigan criminal background check and a drug screen for all candidates.

Permanent Placement

Our professional recruitment staff will save you time and money in your search for permanent medical personnel. We will invest the time and effort to understand your specific needs and to custom-design a recruitment program to attract the right candidate. Wolverine charges a recruitment fee only if we succeed in locating the right professional to fill your job opening.

Skills Testing

We test all nursing candidates to determine their technical knowledge and skills. In addition, we screen candidates for their professional attitude and character.

Trial Hire

Even with sophisticated testing and extensive screening, the best way to predict a candidate’s success on the job is through actual work performance. By combining contingent and permanent placement services, Wolverine offers clients a unique opportunity to judge the on-the-job performance of a prospective permanent employee in an interim assignment for a trial period. If the client and the candidate are happy with the fit, Wolverine offers a liberal policy for converting an employee from contingent to permanent employment.

Guaranteed Satisfaction

Our guarantee of satisfaction goes into effect the minute your Wolverine Medical staff reports for work. If you are not satisfied with our medical employee for any reason, call us as soon as possible. We will send a qualified replacement immediately. If you notify us within the first four hours of an assignment, you won’t be charged for the hours worked by the first person we sent.

If a Wolverine Medical employee fails to report for a scheduled assignment and we are not able to send a qualified replacement within one hour, you will receive a two-hour credit on your next invoice.

Work assignments include:

Flexible Hiring Options

Whether you need a team of consultants or just one person, we can customize a staffing solution to meet your needs for contingent, contract or full-time employees.

Contingent-Temporary & Contract Staffing

Whether you need a team of technical professionals for a project or an administrative assistant for a day, we provide quality contingent- temporary or contract employees to fit your needs. We utilize an in-depth evaluation process to ensure every employer is the “right fit” for your requirements.

Contract-to-Hire

Many of our clients enjoy the flexibility of contract-to-hire because it allows them to see first hand the capabilities of a contract employee before hiring them as a full-time member of their organization. A discounted placement fee applies based on hours worked on the contingent assignment.

Direct-Hire

When the need arises to hire an employee directly as a core member of the team, we place engineering, drafting and executive management professionals on a direct hire basis. Our fee is contingent upon your employment of our candidate.

Skills Testing

We test all candidates to determine their technical knowledge and skills. In addition, we screen candidates for their professional attitude and character.

Trial Hire

Even with sophisticated testing and extensive screening, the best way to predict a candidate’s success on the job is through actual work performance. By combining contingent and permanent placement services, Wolverine offers clients a unique opportunity to judge the on-the-job performance of a prospective permanent employee in a contingent assignment for a trial period. If the client and the candidate are happy with the fit, Wolverine offers a liberal policy for converting an employee from contingent to permanent.

Guaranteed Satisfaction

Our guarantee of satisfaction goes into effect the minute your Wolverine staff reports for work. If you are not satisfied with our employee for any reason, call us as soon as possible. We will send a qualified replacement immediately. If you notify us within the first four hours of an assignment, you won’t be charged for the hours worked by the first person we sent.

We guarantee all direct-hire placements for a period of ninety (90) calendar days, beginning on the starting date of the employee. If the employee leaves for any reason during the first ninety (90) days, we will provide replacement candidates for your review at no additional charge.

We have qualified, ready-to-work employees, standing by waiting to be dispatched to you now. Full or part time, seasonal, one day or every day.

Contact us us anytime for more detail.

Unemployment compensation control services

Over the past few years, the high burden of benefit payments resulting from high unemployment has seriously depleted the State of Michigan unemployment insurance trust fund. Because of the massive increase in claims volume along with agency staff reductions and the closing of claim offices, state claims examiners are not equipped to investigate claims properly thus most of this burden falls back to employers. Employers should not rely on the State to follow up on claims from those who quit their last job or were discharged for cause.

Employers can limit their unemployment insurance costs from layoffs that are either seasonal or temporary in nature. Refusal of suitable employment generally should disqualify an individual currently collecting unemployment insurance benefits. Detachment from the labor market is also disqualifying. There are numerous personnel practices that employers can implement to reduce this cost, however if employers do not respond properly and aggressively it will mean in many cases as much as $10,000 depleted from the employer’s reserve account. Without some level of claims control, many employers will pay double digit tax rates. This means, instead of paying less than $100 per employee for unemployment insurance taxes per year, it could cost well over $1,000 per employee for this cost per year.

Protect your profit margins today with a strict unemployment insurance cost containment program. We can maximize your unemployment insurance claims savings and thus help you achieve the lowest possible tax rate under the law.

Services Include

• Developing systems to prevent unwarranted claims.
• Developing policies for proper documentation leading to an employee's termination.
• Avoiding claims of discrimination.
• Defining an independent contractor.
• Reviewing pertinent documentation prior to hearings.
• Determining appropriate witnesses to bring about favorable dispositions.
• Preparing witnesses for participation at hearings.
• Attending hearings as required. Many employers use lawyers which is costly and not necessary.
• Filing protests on all claim determinations with which client disagrees.
• Filing a brief to appeal any unfavorable decision issued by State Administrative Hearing Officers.
• Requesting and monitoring credits where applicable.

You face endless pressures from the marketplace to reduce operating expenses in order to stay competitive and maintain reasonable profitability. While we cannot offer solutions to all your overhead expenses, our Industrial Medical Services Program (IMS) will significantly reduce your workers’ compensation related expenses.

Our goal is to provide this service free of charge to our clients. Contact us for details.

The Problem

Through strong lobbying by organized labor, Michigan has enacted decidedly lopsided workers’ compensation laws. This has resulted in increased operating expenses for all manufacturing businesses in the state.

According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, workers’ compensation insurance and related lost time expenses can increase base salaries by more than 12.4%.

• Michigan is one of only five states that lets an employee select their own treating physician.
• Michigan is one of only four states that allows an employee to collect compensation benefits equal to 80% of the employee’s spendable income.
• In Michigan, attorneys are allowed to charge a fee of up to 30% of an employee’s benefits or award for representing them in workers’ compensation matters - the highest fee structure in the nation.
• There are no time or monetary limitations on medical benefits paid in Michigan.
• While the incidence rate for cases with days away from work has declined, rates for cases with days of restricted work activity have increased, and in 1998 the rate was higher than the rate for cases with days away from work.

The Solution

The formula for reducing worker's compensation costs is simple:

Injury Prevention + Loss Control = Lower Worker's Compensation Costs

According to a study conducted by Michigan State University, the best methods to reduce worker's compensation costs are:

• Availability of on-site medical care.
• Timely, accurate accident reporting and investigation.
• Training programs in safe lifting techniques, hand safety and hazard recognition.
• Return-to-work programs allowing injured employees to return to work gradually, from light-duty assignments to full-time duty.

Industrial Medical Services Program

Through our industrial medical services program we will:

• Provide you with an on-call or an on-site Industrial Medical Specialist who will provide first aid and safety consultation services.
• Significantly reduce down time by minimizing time away from the job because of an injury or illness.
• Provide savings on every payroll dollar. By decreasing the frequency and severity of reportable worker’s compensation cases, your payroll-based insurance premiums will be reduced. In addition, these savings are compounded from year to year.
• Provide you with a Light or Restricted Duty Program. One of the keys to minimizing lost time is to keep the employee in the same daily routine of coming to work.
• Substantially reduce your first aid treatment expenses. Our cost for administering first aid (including supplies) is more than 130% less on the average than comparable treatment at an industrial clinic.
• Provide timely, accurate accident reporting and investigation.
• Provide on-site drug screening.
• Reduce the dollar value of claims by limiting the severity of accidents or by eliminating them altogether.
• Provide eligibility for schedule rating credits and other incentive programs that may be offered by your insurance carriers.
• Provide training programs in safe lifting techniques, hand safety and hazard recognition.
• Help to control medical billing mistakes through review of bills for surgeries and other major medical procedures.
• Provide your employees with a preferred rate for home health and adult care services.

A word about Wolverine

• We have been supplying clerical, production and medical personnel to leading employers in southeastern Michigan for more than 20 years.
• We supply production staffing twenty-four hours a day.
• Through our networking efforts, we have developed a group of hundreds of production employees. In addition, we have many skilled candidates such as millwrights, toolmakers and CNC operators.
• Because we are locally owned and operated, we can immediately respond without first obtaining clearance from a corporate office.
• We do not try to be everything to everyone. Rather, we concentrate on supplying a superior service to a select group of clients.