PEO means any person engaged in the business of providing professional employer services, regardless of whether such person uses the term or conducts business as a professional employer organization, staff leasing company, registered staff leasing company, employee leasing company, administrative employer or any other name.
 

No, PEO does not include temporary help services or independent contractor arrangements in which a person assumes responsibility for the product produced or service performed by such person or such person's agents and retains and exercises primary direction and control over the work performed by the individuals whose services are supplied under such arrangements.

Each professional employer organization operating within this state on January 1, 2009, shall submit its initial registration not later than March 1, 2009, on form PEO-1.

Each professional employer organization not operating within this state as of January 1, 2009, shall complete its initial registrationon form PEO-1, prior to commencement of operations within this state.

Go to the Connecticut Department of Labor Wage and Workplace Standards Division website and click on Professional Employer Organizations and follow the instructions.

Yes, the PEO must file documentation concerning their financial status depending on whether it has more or less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars in working capital.  The document entitled Instructions and List of Forms for PEOs and PEO Groups explains what forms your PEO must fill out.

Send your completed application packet to Wage and Workplace Standards Division, 200 Folly Brook Boulevard, Wethersfield, CT  06109. The check should be made payable to Wage and Workplace Standards Division.

If you have any questions, contact Holly Carter at (860) 263-6549 of Wage and Workplace Standards or Heidi Lane at (860) 263-6765 at DOL's Program Policy Unit.