Mainstay Business Solutions provides a suite of administrative services related to employment, including safety and loss control, human resources, employee benefits, workers’ compensation and temporary to permanent staffing solutions.

A Good Example 

By establishing Mainstay Business Solutions, the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe has helped define the larger legal and political framework for off-reservation Tribal businesses.

Mainstay’s success is further proof that Native American economic engines can bring mutual benefit to both Indian Country and the greater business community.  With Mainstay, Tribal opportunities are working for the benefit of hundreds of California businesses and thousands of California employees, as well as the Tribe itself. 

Structure and Value

Like all companies and partnerships, Tribally-owned enterprises have specific structures.  Native American businesses are regulated by U.S. Congress.  Additionally, Tribes sometimes enter into agreements such as tribal-state compacts to further organize their operations.  Tribes can, in certain instances, manage and regulate their own businesses or some aspects of their businesses.  For example, Tribes are able to provide unemployment benefits through a reimbursement of actual costs as administered by the state on behalf of the Tribe.  As a result of specific and typically tighter financial controls, a qualified Tribal business partner can provide more direct control over their operations and quality of their products, and lower costs to the consumer.