Robert Half Management resources survey: CFOs reveal most unusual items submitted on employee expense reports. [The Sacramento Bee]
TopstepTrader puts job candidates to the test with a two-week trading contest and a chance to win a $150,000 live trading account. [Gaebler]
Communication expert David Grossman creates the definitive guide for reducing email in the workplace. [MarketWatch]
Increasing levels of workplace retaliation reported in national survey. [mondaq]
West Chester-based Advantage RN acquired PHS Staffing, a San Diego, Calif.-based company with similar operations in southern and northern California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah. [Dayton Business Journal]
Arrow Strategies announces the formal launch of their Professional Staffing Division which will specialize in contract and permanent staffing of Accounting/Finance, Sales, Legal, Management, Marketing, and Purchasing/Supply Chain professionals. [MarketWatch]
Labor Finders International, Inc announced that the American Staffing Association (ASA) has re-elected Jeffrey Burnett, LFI’s CEO and President to its 2012 board of directors. [Franchising]
Under a new Voluntary Classification Settlement Program, the Internal Revenue Service permits employers to reclassify independent contractors as employees with minimal costs. Misclassified workers have recently come under fire from government agencies. For example, in a Sept. 19, 2011, press release, the IRS and Department of Labor announced coordinated and targeted enforcement efforts against misclassified workers. Similarly, the IRS previously indicated it will focus on worker classification with regard to its employment tax audit initiative announced in February 2010. [State Bar Wisconsin]
Chelsea, MA staffing company, EDA Staffing will sign an agreement on Thursday with a local organization that represents immigrant workers in the city. The agreement will improve the conditions of employment for temporary workers and represents a small step in the right direction, according to Adrian Ventura, director of the Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores or Workers Community Center in the South End. [South Coast TODAY]
The National Inflation Association predicts that enterprise social networking will revolutionize the workplace beginning in 2012 and change forever the way the world gets work done. [MarketWatch]
Bernhart Survey shows bright jobs outlook for digital and dm. [What They Think]
Workers’ right to sue employers over pay, other conditions in flux. [Huffington Post]
Illinois businesses have qualified for $67 million in tax credits by hiring military veterans, people on food stamps and others in need of work experience. [The Republic]
Finesse Staffing is holding a labor law seminar from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday that will discuss new workplace regulations. [PE]
Infinite Career Solutions announces the launch of their new staffing and recruiting company. [PR]
After a series of inspections at four mega-warehouses in Chino, Cal/OSHA’s High-Hazard Unit has issued dozens of citations to National Distribution Centers and its temporary staffing agency, Tri-State Staffing. Almost half the citations are for alleged serious violations. Between the two companies, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) proposes more than $256,000 in penalties. [Cal-OSHA]
Murray Resources released the results of the company’s inaugural Houston hiring outlook survey. [MSN Money]
Event Tenders, LLC, a full service event management and staffing company, provides a recap of new business for 2011. [PR]
Hudson Legal has expanded its project management depth and capability with the recruitment of three industry experts and promotion of two others. [MarketWatch]
