Hiring Solutions

Temporary Staffing

Flexible staffing for peaks, projects, absences and changing demand

Add qualified, work-ready people when demand changes, without adding permanent headcount before you are ready. ABL recruits, screens, onboards, employs and supports temporary associates so your team can keep operations moving.

What is Temporary Staffing?

Temporary staffing gives your business fast, flexible access to employees for a defined period, project or changing workload. ABL employs the associate, processes payroll and statutory remittances, coordinates onboarding and stays connected throughout the assignment. You direct the day-to-day work at your site while ABL supports attendance, communication, coaching and assignment success.

Need a longer-term solution? A temporary assignment can also become a temp-to-hire opportunity. After the agreed transfer period, often 500 billed hours, you may bring a proven performer onto your payroll without an additional conversion fee. The specific transfer period is confirmed in your service agreement.

Benefits of Temporary Staffing

Staffing services are one of the areas companies look towards to save time and money on the hiring process. Our aim is to augment and complement your hiring department. We are determined to be your company’s lowest cost provider of staffing services through helping you to:

Respond Quickly

Add people for urgent ramp-ups, backfills, projects or seasonal demand.

Protect Productivity

Keep orders, lines and service commitments moving when your core team is stretched.

Stay Flexible

Scale staffing up or down as volumes, schedules and priorities change.

Reduce Administration

ABL manages recruiting, screening, onboarding, weekly payroll and employer remittances.

Support Retention

High-touch communication, coaching and recognition help associates arrive prepared and stay engaged.

When to Choose Temporary Staffing

  • You need people quickly for an unexpected vacancy, order or project.
  • Your staffing requirements rise and fall throughout the year.
  • You need vacation, leave or absentee coverage.
  • A short-term project requires a dedicated crew or specialized onboarding.
  • Recruiting is consuming time your managers or HR team need for higher-value work.
  • You want to protect permanent headcount while demand is still uncertain.
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Why Choose ABL Employment

  • Licensed, compliant staffing with secure, accessible onboarding and client-specific orientation.
  • A robust candidate network supported by multi-platform advertising, referrals and ongoing engagement.
  • Practical pay and recruitment strategies built around your shifts, location, skills and retention needs.
  • Responsive communication, after-hours support and regular associate follow-up.

Our Process

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Step 1: Understand

We learn your staffing need, timeline, worksite, shift, pay strategy, required skills and definition of success.

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Step 2: Recruit & Prepare

ABL attracts, screens and skill-matches candidates, completes onboarding and prepares them for your workplace.

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Step 3: Deploy & Support

We coordinate starts, remain in contact, gather feedback and coach associates to support productivity and retention.

Positions We Fill

General Labour

labourers, cleaners and material handlers.

Logistics/Warehouse

Shipper-receivers, inventory staff, logistics coordinators, order pickers, packagers, assemblers and labellers.

Equipment

Forklift operators, machine operators and drivers.

Property, Facility & Environmental Services

groundskeeping, environmental services, linen cleaning service, waste management, junk removal, restoration/clean-up services.

Office Support

Administrative, reception, data entry and accounting support.

Customer Service

retail cashiers & service staff, call-centre and bilingual representatives.

Leadership

Team leads, supervisors and operations support.

Project Teams

Large-volume crews for launches, seasonal peaks and special projects.

Industries We Serve

Logistics & 3PL

Distribution, shipping, receiving and transportation support.

Warehousing

Order pickers, packagers, assemblers and labellers.

Manufacturing

General labour, machine operation, assembly and quality support.

Production

Packagers, assemblers, line workers and team leads.

Food Manufacturing

Production, packaging, sanitation and distribution.

Call Centres

Customer care, contact-centre and multilingual teams.

Office Support

Administrative and operational support.

Retail & Regulated Sectors

Seasonal, launch, warehouse and customer-support staffing.

What Other Companies Say About ABL Employment

“They are professional, reliable and react quickly. Their team feels like an extension of our department and comes on site to support whatever we require.”

VP of Human Resources, Manufacturing Client

“ABL spends time preparing employees for what to expect before they arrive, then follows up after the shift and throughout the assignment. That communication prevents problems and constant turnover.”

Shift Supervisor

“We are a meat-packing plant, and we came to understand that our existing staffing supplier was sending us undocumented workers, and was paying them cash “under the table”, putting US at risk of being solely liable for any Ministry Of Labour fines and penalties, not to mention Workplace Compensation claims. We called in ABL to help us immediately refill 40 positions with their staff, who are properly vetted, screened, and have all necessary documentation. All of this was done within 4 days, and allowed us to move forward confidently to focus on our own customers needs.”

VP Of Human Resources

“ABL’s employee focused pricing policy gives us cost effective productivity: Our operation has a training curve so it takes a bit for the temporaries to become truly productive. ABL temporaries stay and are motivated, I think because they are paid fairly, yet ABL’s bill rate is very competitive.”

Operations Manager

“We are a busy manufacturing company that relies on temporary staff to keep our production lean and effective. Initially we doubted we’d get consistent or sufficient staffing for last-minute, high-volume orders. However, ABL disproved these concerns, showing that effective communication creates a pool of reliable workers, boosting productivity and maximizing lean production. ABL has exclusively supplied our contingency labour for 8 years.”

Production Manager — Packaging Company

FAQs

Timing depends on the role, shift, location, screening requirements and number of people needed. ABL begins with your priorities, confirms a realistic attraction and deployment plan, and can draw on an established candidate network for urgent and high-volume needs.

Temporary staffing is generally billed hourly. Rates are commonly developed as a markup on the employee pay rate so the pay strategy can respond to market conditions. The hourly bill rate includes payroll processing and applicable employer obligations and remittances; any assignment-specific terms are confirmed in the service agreement.

The associate is employed and paid through ABL while working under your day-to-day direction at the worksite. ABL manages recruiting, onboarding, payroll and ongoing associate communication.

Yes. Temporary staffing can transition to temp-to-hire. After the agreed transfer period, often 500 billed hours, the associate may join your payroll without an additional conversion fee. Earlier conversion options may also be available.

ABL confirms work eligibility and role requirements, interviews and skill-matches candidates, completes required onboarding and can coordinate testing, references or background checks when the role requires them.

Other Staffing Solutions From ABL

Temporary-To-Hire

Evaluate attendance, productivity and fit on assignment before hiring a proven performer.

Accelerated Hire

Place the candidate directly on your payroll with graduated weekly billing and a built-in guarantee.

Direct Hire

Targeted recruitment for permanent professional, management and specialized roles.

Pre-Hire Screening

Extend your hiring team with scalable attraction, screening, assessment and interview-ready talent.

Contact ABL Employment

Not sure which solution is right for your company? Tell us about your roles, timelines and priorities, and an ABL staffing specialist will help you build a responsive, cost-effective hiring plan.