Researchers release a first-of-its-kind report on temporary employment in Massachusetts. What do you think? [Masscosh]
Bank of America again this year reinforced its commitment to helping build and support the communities it serves with a grant of $7,500 to Community Access Unlimited (CAU) for use in the agency’s employment services programs. [New Jersey Today]
Discrimination “negative”: The Workers Party of Belgium Adecco unveils list of ‘Belgian Blue’. [fdesouche]
“If you try to compare this market to what we remember in 1999, 2000, 2006, it’s definitely more sluggish,” said Brett Good, senior district president for global staffing company Robert Half International. “But if you were to compare the activity currently versus where we were a year ago, it’s an improved market.” [Los Angeles Times]
The trash piles up and a company called Modern Staffing is hired to find new workers when the union employees threatened to strike. [DNA Info]
A bill that passed the State Senate this week will allow formerly incarcerated persons to earn a certificate that enables them to apply for professional licenses that convicted felons were prohibited from getting. House Bill 641, which was ratified yesterday at the General Assembly, is awaiting signature into law by Gov. Bev Perdue. [News Observer]
For the first time since February 2009, Kentucky’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is below 10 percent. [Business First]
A bogus foreign employment agency in Huseniawatta Avissawella has been busted and one suspect arrested, the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) said. Investigations have revealed that the suspect had cheated many people around Avissawella and many other parts of the country promising them employment abroad using fake documents and forged passports. [Daily News]
Staffing agency owner purchases village shopping center. “It’s strictly a family investment,” said Venables, a U.K. native who, with his wife owns Daytona Employment, a private staffing agency in Daytona Beach. [Daytona Beach News-Journal]
Yesterday was supposed to be a big day for contractors doing residential construction. OSHA’s revised residential fall protection standard was to go into effect on June 16, which meant potentially large fines for anyone caught working at height without fall protection, or a written plan based on a feasibility study. Rather than implement the new regs, however, the agency has taken a three-month breather and will “phase in” enforcement of the new rules. The phase in period will run from June 16 – September 15, 2011. [International Business Times]
Sam Wongsesanit, who Thai workers say was once one of the most feared supervisors on Hawaii’s farms earning him the name “Bad Sam”, faced a federal judge Tuesday to admit to being part of a forced labor conspiracy. The 40-year-old former field supervisor for the Los Angeles-based Global Horizons Manpower Company, who was born in Los Angeles and speaks both Thai and English, was supposed to act as the intermediary for the hundreds of workers that Global brought to America from Thailand when he was employed by the company from May 2004 to January 2008. Instead, the workers say he intimidated and threatened them, even when they were too sick to work, by using the threat of deportation, and he got into a physical confrontation at Maui Pine that severely injured one worker and left others even more fearful of Wongsesanit. [Hawaii Reporter]
Lawmakers on Thursday criticized the Department of Labor for not appearing at a subcommittee hearing on workplace safety and health. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.), chairman of the Education and the Workforce subcommittee on workforce protections, criticized the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for not appearing at his hearing. Walberg said he was open to OSHA’s attendance, but admonished the agency, which is housed in the Labor Department, for requiring a 14-day notice to prepare for hearings. [The Hill]
