SD companies sue state over Manpower contract. [Yankton]
ManpowerGroup’s first-quarter net income rose 13 percent as the company tightened spending and saw employment improve in some regions. [CBS News]
ABBTECH Celebrates 20 years of service! [MarketWatch]
Millenium Search exceeds projected first quarter estimates and adds personnel. [Virtual Strategy]
Canada: Temp staffing index stays above pre-recession level. [Recruiter]
Carl J. Taylor & Co., a Dallas executive search firm, filled controller position for oil and gas industry manufacturing company. [Web Wire]
Congratulations to A Better World Awards Winner: Accentuate Staffing. [Triangle Business Journal]
The Rise of the Supertemp. [Harvard Business Review]
Karma and the temporary employee. [Examiner]
Staffing stocks jump Manpower reports increased profit. [Retirement Planning Zone]
Fighting the culture wars at work. [The Daily Caller]
SteelPivot, Inc., a premium provider of 100% hands-on Linux training, staffing and consulting services in Atlanta and Dallas, announced today that the company achieved a 450% revenue increase from 2010 to 2011, and a staff increase of 600%. [Virtual Strategy]
Consensus: team building’s silent killer. [Forbes]
Good leadership requires eliminating insinuation. [Kelly Services]
Confirmed: he who sits the most dies the soonest. [The Atlantic]
Basic steps toward work-life balance. [Forbes]
Lawyer accused of breaking into ex-employee’s personal email is barred from using computer at work. [ABA Journal]
Economic indicators rise for 6th straight month. [ERE]
Edge Information Management, Inc., a prominent provider of employment screening solutions, is proud to announce that Norm Gagnon, Vice President of Compliance and Operations, and Ryan Fadden, Compliance Administrator, have passed the Advanced Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) Certification Course. [Virtual Strategy]
UK: Jobsite statistics reveal that newspapers remain a vital resource for recruitment with important benefits to both the employer and job seeker. [PRWeb]
Outsourcing human resources helps companies stay profitable in a down economy. [Times Union]
A new diversity study of the ad industry indicates that despite efforts by agencies, most minorities working in the field believe their experience as an Adland employee is different from whites — and that the industry is not diverse enough. The study, from Tangerine Watson Inc., the cross-cultural advertising and media recruitment firm, comes just as the diversity issue is heating up again in New York City, where the Comptroller’s Office has submitted a shareholder proposal to Omnicom Group that would require the company to publicly disclose documents that detail the company’s minority staffing levels. [Media Daily News]
Out of the Darkness, into the Shadows: The DLSE Further Modifies Its Interpretation of the California Wage Theft Prevention Act. [JDSupra]
GAO says OSHA takes too long to develop safety standards. [Occupational Health & Safety]
Do your internal auditors have the right skills? Companies are looking beyond accounting backgrounds to professionals who have data-mining and analytical expertise. [CFO]
As workers age, oil industry braces for skills gap. [NPR]
