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Hatch Staffing Services sees your Bike to Work Week and raises you a half marathon. Seriously. Almost a third of Hatch staffers ran a half marathon last year. So when they hopped on their bikes last Monday for National Bike to Work Week, that peculiar [...]
Produce company pays nearly $500,000 in back wages after requiring workers to arrive early without compensation [The Daily Journal] Earnings gap between “high-profit” and “typical” IT staffing companies reaches historic levels [Staffing Industry Analysts] At nearly four years, the average tenure of a CMO is [...]
Software developers are most in-demand tech job, based on online job ads [Wanted Analytics] Number of U.S. jobless claims spikes to six-week high [Market Watch] Staffing price index increases in April, displaying the biggest jump since 2010 [Staffing Industry Analysts] Online staffing: an estimated $1 [...]
NC logistics firm owes $1.5 million in back pay/damages after firing three temp workers over sexual harassment complaints [Memphis Business Journal] Almost three quarters of freelancers who also have “regular” jobs want to quit and work for themselves [Staffing Industry Analysts] Abercrombie CEO’s ill-advised interview [...]
Ever since Barack’s State of the Union speech, states have been moving on proposals to raise their minimum wage from $7.25 to around $9 an hour. At the moment Barack called for it, 19 states already had minimum wage standards above $7.25. But now, that [...]
Think Beyond the Label releases survey which reveals telecommuting as the second highest ranked workplace benefit [PR Buzz] Half of Americans active online visited a U.S. education or career site in March [Nielsen] Are you leaving money on the table? More than six in 10 [...]
I have no idea why the Economist titled this article about an entrepreneur opening a non-credentialed coding school in the heart of Paris ‘Bangalore Sur Seine’. Bangalore doesn’t fit. It’s an infrastructural hell-hole where Fortune 100 companies dump software jobs to when they mistakenly think [...]
Moms who built their own billion-dollar fortunes – and how they made it work [Forbes] Pregnant Workers’ Fairness Act would require employers to make the same accommodations for pregnancy as injury [ACLU] Recently passed in New York City, the Earned Sick Time Act grants many [...]
Insight of the day: lowering price increases demand I met with a recruiter this weekend and we discussed the bill rates he was getting for Javascript developers here in the Twin Cities. I mentioned that Best Buy (you know, the store where people decide what [...]
Normally I’m just after the math types, but this kid dishes it out Malcolm X style and is destined to change the world. In defense of the teacher who is accused of ‘collecting a paycheck … by handing out packets,’ she’s polite enough as he [...]
Number of temporary workers heads toward record in the U.S. this year as companies begin to value being more “nimble” [Bloomberg Businessweek] California lawmaker says companies who employ 500+ people (like Wal-Mart) should extend health care coverage to everyone on payroll, even if they’re part-time [...]
New claims for jobless benefits hit lowest level since January 2008 [Market Watch] Feds disclose prices hospitals charge for the most common inpatient procedures – and the range is stunning [Washington Post] Job-related deaths among immigrants increased 14 per cent over just two years [WBEZ] [...]
American companies spend about $30 billion each year relocating many of the nearly 880,000 heads of households who make job-related moves each year. And according to a new survey, nearly a third of those companies expect to increase employee relocations in 2013, even if they’re [...]
Who out there can say that their boss drove them to the tattoo parlor and shelled out the cash for their body art? Forty-four sales agents at Rapid Realty NYC, that’s who. They’re serving as permanent canvases for the RR company logo. And their motivation [...]
Hutco Inc. agrees to pay $1.9 million in back wages to employees denied overtime through sloppy record-keeping [Staffing Industry Analysts] OSHA imposes $24,000 fine upon finding 10 serious violations that led to a temp worker’s electrocution at a wastewater treatment site last year [Knox News] [...]
Let me get this out of the way right from the start. I really dig Pope Francis. From his washing the feet of women on Maundy Thursday to living in a guesthouse instead of the near-hedonistic papal suites, I find him inspiring. And his frugality [...]
Amazon could owe workers more than $100 million in back wages/penalties for unpaid time spent in security lines [Security Info Watch] It’s National Nurses Week. Let’s talk the serious nurse shortage that will occur as our population ages [Poughkeepsie Journal] Man who embezzled more than [...]
It’s not a job listings site or job lead site, but rather a web platform designed to connect college job-seekers with experienced, professional advisors for 30-minute informational phone calls. And six Harvard Business School students took LaunchPad from a simple concept to a public Beta [...]
Hatch Staffing Services sees your Bike to Work Week and raises you a half marathon. Seriously. Almost a third of Hatch staffers ran a half marathon last year. So when they hopped on their bikes last Monday for National Bike to Work Week, that peculiar [...]
It’s not often that I get the opportunity to chat with one of the many talented developers here at TempWorks (they’re always so busy working on the next new and exciting tech project), but when I do I always come away thinking we just mentally [...]
“If you can learn the art of making something from nothing in this world, by leveraging the resources of the universe, you will never want for anything because you can always make more.” Those words were uttered by Dr. Rajiv Tandon, or as I call [...]
The Deluge of Negativity Surrounding Email Email is the new pony express. Email is a distraction. Email is for old people. These are sweeping complaints, but they have compelling nuggets of truth under the surface. For instance, while transmitting an email isn’t slow, it often [...]
By popular demand, Staffing Talk has been following every new development the Affordable Care Act can dish out because, as readers like you have made clear, it’s kinda a big deal to staffing. Unfortunately it’s been a little while since we’ve had an update for [...]
