President Obama: extending payroll tax cut is a “Boost We Need Right Now.” [White House]
U.S. “could learn a lot” from Switzerland. [Swiss Info]
Integrity Staffing Solutions awarding 13 brand new cars to dedicated associates across the U.S. [The Sacramento Bee]
Do anti-discrimination and sexual harassment laws protect temps? [Halunen & Associates, Attorneys At Law]
Can you keep your IT staff in 2012? As IT hiring rises, CIOs will find it harder to replace retiring Baby Boomers and retain 20-somethings. [Network World]
Huang Chen received 27 years in prison after pleading guilty to following an employment agency owner home and disemboweling her. [The Wall Street Journal]
Fair work, fair pay: lessons from Australia. [TruthOut]
Employment screening lawsuits increase as attorneys and consumers become familiar with FCRA laws regulating background checks. [Employment Screening Resources]
Challenges faced by small business due to Obamacare. [FOX News]
Santa Claus takes on many forms at Christmas. At Labor Ready in Missoula, she’s a kind lady dispensing $50 bills to some of the area’s poorest people. [NBC Montana]
ManpowerGroup calendar honors Elmer Winter’s art, wisdom. [The Milwaukee Business Journal]
Eight states will ring in the New Year with a higher minimum wage, under state laws that require wage floors to keep apace with inflation. [New York Times]
NLRB postpones effective date of rights posting rule to April 30. [NLRB]
State Supreme Court clarifies law on noncompete agreements. [Chicago Tribune Business]
CyberCoders reveals the Top Ten Technology Jobs in New York for 2012. [Market Watch]
Hiring boom forecast in health care, accounting, information technology and sales. [Chicago Tribune]
Year in review: True Talent Group reflects on 2011 milestones. [PR Canada]
The city of Washington, D.C., recently chose Lancaster-based Access Personnel Services Inc. as one of several vendors to provide job placement and workforce readiness training to the district’s welfare recipients. The twin five-year contracts start Jan. 1. [Lancaster Online]
Christmas is in the books, but area employers say they expect the cheer to stretch into the New Year. Nearly six in 10 local employers polled – 58 percent – say they expect to hire during the first three months of 2012, in the latest survey of employment trends by Sacramento staffing firm pacific staffing. That’s a 12 percent increase over the first quarter of 2010 and a seven percent rise from first quarter 2011. [The Sacramento Bee]
JobLander talking to recruiters about strategic partnerships. [PR Web]
Best Practices for Diversity. [Human Resource Executive Online]
