Kavaliro receives dual recognition as Top Place to Work in Florida. [MarketWatch]
Classify employees properly to avoid penalty. [Hotel News Now]
Maxim Healthcare Services has agreed to pay its recruiters $12.3 million to settle its federal class and collective actions. The recruiters had claimed that they worked more than 40 hours a week without overtime pay. The lawsuits had dated back up to 3 years. [Helping Workers]
Largest Columbus, IN employers have more than 240 job openings. Professional employees such as engineers are in demand. [News and Tribune]
ADP earnings will give us a peek at US employment trends. [TREFI$]
The Catch-22 of Criminal-Background-Check Guidance: Some employers are simply refusing to follow the new EEOC guideline on criminal background checks for fear it will either put them out of business or create an unsafe working environment. [HREOnline]
Catava Reese, owner of the Corning Express Employment Professionals office, announces that Express is certified as a woman-owned business by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, confirming the office is 51 percent owned, controlled, operated and managed by a woman. [Press Connects]
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater and Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti announced multiple arrests in “Operation Dirty Money,” an investigation conducted by the recently formed Workers’ Compensation Fraud Task Force, which has to date netted more than $140 million in fraudulent transactions associated with 12 shell companies. [My Florida CFO]
GSA Applications announced that Fenster-Martens Holding, doing business as Enterprise Medical Services (Enterprise Medical) has been awarded a GSA Schedule 738-X contract and is now certified to provide Human Resource and Employment Services to the Federal Government. [PR Newswire]
VTS-VM, LLC has signed a 2,987 square foot lease at 8840 Stanford Boulevard in Columbia, MD, part of the Columbia Corporate Park. [Baltimore City BizList]
Jeff Joutras, regional vice president with Wisconsin-based staffing firm QPS Employment Group, said companywide, about 5,000 people are on assignment with an employer on any given day. The work isn’t all temporary, either: in the first six months of the year, about 1,500 people have been hired on full-time through QPS. [RRStar]
Accountable Healthcare Holdings Corp completes acquisition of First Choice Staffing Solutions, LLC. [PRNewswire]
New, moving or expanding: Doherty Staffing relocates; launches Top Talent Solutions. [SCTimes]
Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are supporting raising the federal minimum to $9.80 an hour, up from the current $7.25. [NY1]
The Employment Policies Institute has released a study examining proposals to raise the federal minimum wage to $9.80 per hour. According to EPI’s analysis of recent Census Bureau data, a wage hike of this magnitude is projected to eliminate as many as 35,634 jobs for Ohio’s less-skilled and experienced workers. [Vindy]
California Court of Appeal rules that advanced sales commissions may be recovered by the employer. [JD§upra]
State Supreme Court extends Workers’ Compensation liability to subcontractor’s employees. [JD§upra]
Utah Employment Letter – August 2012: Hostile Work Environment: No kidding: 10th Circuit sends case involving racial jokes to trial. [JD§upra]
Business law: Hostile work environments. [NWI Times]
Be doubly careful when working for 2 bosses. [The Bottom Line]
