What is co-employment?

An arrangement where two companies both have rights and obligations as an employer.

The business maintains responsibilities for the worker’s job duties and day-to-day functions while the co-employer manages personnel-related functions such as payroll. In this way, the worker is technically employed both by the business and the co-employer.

In the world of independent contracting, co-employment commonly occurs when staffing agencies engage independent contractors for their clients. While the business is primarily responsible for HR functions such as recruiting, hiring, and payroll, the company handles the work agreement. In this situation, because the staffing agency and the client have obligations to the contractor, they can both be viewed as an employer.

Co-Employment will be particularly beneficial for the following sectors:

Healthcare

Domiciliary Healthcare (non-vatable) contracts.

Government

Government and/or Council contracts.

Off Payroll

IR35 public and private sector contracts.

Back Office Providers

Processing large staff numbers to reduce costs/overheads.

How does it work?

Co-employment is a contractual agreement between a company and a Professional Employer Organisation (PEO).

The Company and the PEO allocate and divide employer responsibilities between them. In a co-employment agreement, your company’s employees (also called worksite employees) are employed by two separate entities:

The client company (Agency/end client/labour user)
The PEO (Conmissura)

The PEO supplies services and benefits to a business and its existing workforce (PEOs don’t supply a workforce).

The business owner maintains control of:

All business decisions
All business operations
All employees’ daily duties and core job functions
Agreeing/negotiating offered Pay Rates

The PEO is typically responsible for:

Processing payroll and administering payroll deductions
Issuing payslips, contracts and other documents
Preparing, filing and depositing payroll taxes
Providing benefits to worksite employees
Providing HR advice to the client company
Providing employee references

What are the benefits?

As an agency/business, you are able to reduce internal staffing overhead costs and processing costs.

This includes the flexibility to allow your business to grow without needing to take on additional staff to support the business growth. The workforce will have access to big-business benefits with the buying power of Conmissura. Typical benefits offered by a PEO include:

HR support

Mortgage Advisors

Pensions advice

Life and personal accident insurance

Employee benefit schemes

Expenses benefits

As the plan sponsor, the PEO assumes all plan sponsor responsibilities and obligations from start to finish.

The PEO also assumes responsibility for paying worksite employees, and the payment and reporting of wages and payroll taxes to HMRC. This helps to ensure accuracy and compliance, and simplifies the payroll process so you can focus on other areas of your business. This includes managing and administering the benefit plans, meaning you no longer have to worry about:

Managing employee enrolment and notifications

Modern Slavery Act

RTW checks and procedures

Simplified payroll

What is CS Engage?

Welcome to CS Engage, a managed service provider (MSP) solution brought to you by Conmissura (CS), the joining of businesses to deliver a market leading co-employment solution.

In a rapidly changing world, with increasing costs and a decreasing labour market, having access to a flexible talent pool keeps companies lean and competitive.

CS Engage, our MSP solution, delivers financial cost savings and efficiencies whilst ensuring an ethical supply chain is maintained.

CS Engage is not a recruitment business. This is not your typical master vend agency proposal by any means. Read on to learn why:

CS Engage is an employment business not a recruitment agency
CS Engage work with an approved PSL of vendors to provide labour to our clients
CS Engage employ a contingent workforce via a co-employment contract with the end user client

Why choose CS Engage as your MSP?

Ethical and compliant partner
GLAA licence holder, Sedex membership, and ETI base code framework underpin our supply chain relationships
Powered by Codabill, our VMS (vendor management software) platform, with integrated time & attendance, delivers end-to-end visibility from bookings through to invoicing
Co-employment contracts allows you to have control of your contingent workforce
Full payroll solution suite to drive efficiencies across the payroll function
One supplier, one invoice, every week
Savings on employment costs
Benchmarking and market intelligence
Access to CS Connect, our benefits suite for all employees
Access to CS Protect our audit & compliance division