Inside outsourcing: Employment law veteran reflects on niche industry's rise

Florida’s professional employer organization sector has come a long way since it was first established in the 1980s. One of its original champions says it has more room to grow.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. March 6, 2020
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Mark Wemple. Mike Miller, one of the state's first attorneys for the employee leasing industry, recently joined Fisher Phillips’ Tampa office
Mark Wemple. Mike Miller, one of the state's first attorneys for the employee leasing industry, recently joined Fisher Phillips’ Tampa office
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With more than 100 professional employer organizations, Florida is an epicenter for what, in Mike Miller’s heyday, was known as the employee leasing industry.

 

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