What are leased employees (Item 7)?
A leased employee is a full or part-time employee of a business or organization that has contracted with an employee leasing service (also known as a professional employer organization) to obtain human resource management services. The employee leasing company provides a wide range of human resource and personnel management services, such as payroll accounting, payroll tax return preparation and filing, benefits administration, recruiting, and labor relations management, to the client business. The employee leasing company and client organization operate as co-employers with regard to the human relations responsibilities to the employees covered by their contract. The employee leasing company pays wages and employment taxes of the leased employees out of its own accounts.