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Doherty opens staffing & employment office in Grand Forks, North Dakota Doherty Staffing Solutions, the largest Minnesota-based staffing, recruiting, and placement agency, has opened a new office located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. “We are thrilled to announce the opening of our second branch office in North Dakota,” said Valerie Doherty, co-founder and CEO of Doherty Staffing Solutions. “We’ve enjoyed serving clients in the area for quite some time and now we welcome the opportunity to become established members of the Grand Forks community with our new office on South...

At the beginning of each year, I notice so many articles focused on how to prepare for performance reviews and leverage your worth to ask for a raise. While those pieces are valuable, what’s far less common is reading about the substantial investments companies make in their employees behind the scenes. Aside from salaries and wages, employers are also writing checks for a long list of other costs that each team member requires year round. When you initially landed your job, your employer probably would have loved to grant your preferred salary right away – that dreamy number you...

Doherty Values Reflected in Employees' Community Involvement Doherty employees Ashley Vaske and Ryan Vesey accepted new positions in two local chambers of commerce this January. Two employees of Doherty Staffing are taking on new roles in their local chambers of commerce. Ashley Vaske stepped into the role of ambassador president of the Algona, IA Chamber of Commerce and Ryan Vesey became a board member with the Jackson, MN Chamber. As a company, Doherty Staffing is driven by its corporate values and mission statement, which reads, “We exist because of clients...

Over 10.3 million workers are currently classified as Independent Contractors. Recent studies indicate that nearly half of the individuals currently working as independent contractors are misclassified and are actually, in the eyes of the law, employees. Over the past few years, the misclassification of independent contractors has been brought to light, not only at the federal level, but at the state level as well. Willful and accidental misclassification of workers as independent contractors reduces the amount of unemployment tax collected by states and the amount of workers’ compensation...