Name change to ManpowerGroup becomes official. [The Business Journal]
The EEOC is in the process of setting new guidelines on discrimination in the workplace as it relates to employees with disabilities. [Bloomberg]
Illinois Senate Committee considers minimum wage hike from $8.25/hr to $10/hr. [CIProud]
How to communicate expectations to new hires. [The Hiring Site]
Private sector jobs report comes in below expectations. [ERE]
Top-rated diet in America can improve employee health & productivity. [HR Vendor News]
Two-out-of-three people say the stress level in their workplace is high, according to a survey of more than 450 North American employees by Right Management. [Right Management]
Principle Solutions Group was named one of Atlanta’s fastest-growing privately held companies on the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2012 Pacesetters List. This is the fourth consecutive year the company has been recognized for the award. [MarketWatch]
Corporate Resource Services, Inc. announced that on April 18, 2012, it formed The CRS Group, Inc. as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“CGI”) to provide VMS services to its clients. The Company also announced that CGI entered into an agreement in principle with ZeroChaos, formerly known as Workforce Logic (“ZeroChaos”), to facilitate its ability to provide such VMS services. CGI and ZeroChaos expect to enter into a final, binding version of a VMS agreement on or before May 31, 2012. [MarketWatch]
Arcadia Solutions listed in Boston’s five fastest-growing private companies. [Business Journals]
BrightStar Care named fastest growing women-owned company for second consecutive year. [MarketWatch]
Two sisters living across the country from one another will participate in Friday’s Relay For Life, one walking with her co-workers at MDT Personnel in Clearwater, Florida the other walking in Oxford, Mississippi. [PRWeb]
Soliant Health’s 2012 Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S. [PRWeb]
Lakeshore, a Denver-based company, is launching their new brand this April. The change comes after 16 years of doing business as “Lakeshore Staffing,” and includes an overhaul in the company’s core values, website, logo, and even their business name. They’re dropping the word “Staffing” from their name because, according to CEO John Paller, the word, “staffing” has a lot of negative connotations. [Exec Digital]
AccruePartners has announced the recent promotion of Meagan Parker to Division Director of Corporate Support. [Open PR]
Falling unemployment rates and steady economic growth means an extended unemployment insurance program ends this month, the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES) said. The expiring federal program affects individuals who have collected benefits for more than 79 weeks. [E News Park Forest]
OmniPoint has been selected as a finalist for the South Florida Business Journal’s 2012 Business of the Year Awards. [Times Union]
Lender forecloses on Arcadia Resources Inc. [Staffing Industry Analysts]
ANSWERS: What Do You Know About OSHA Employee Protection Regulations? [Today’s Facility Manager]
