Employment Plus named best employer in Ohio 2012. [Tumblr]
‘Needless networking’: How and why to stay connected when you’re already employed. [The Work Buzz]
‘How Creativity Works’: It’s All In Your Imagination. [NPR]
In South Africa, arguments rage over temporary employment. One of the issues in the heated debate around the Labour Relations Amendment Bill adopted by the Cabinet last week is whether employers will be able to continue employing temporary workers “on the sly” for longer than the prescribed six months. [Business Day]
Robert Walters Salary Survey 2012: Unites States [Robert Walters]
More companies are OK with employees using Facebook at work. Workers at AT Kearney connect with their friends on Facebook now and then when they’re on the job, and that’s just fine with executives there. [ComputerWorld]
Ford fishes for recruitment companies to help dealers. [Auto News]
Criminal record law requirements become effective May 4. [mondaq]
Fracking boom divides small businesses. Empowered Staffing Solutions, a six-year-old temporary-employment agency in Sayre, Pa., placed about 750 workers last year, often at minimum wage, in manufacturing, production and food jobs, says Fred Cavallaro, the agency’s vice president. The placements often became full-time workers with heftier wages. He estimates that he could probably place about 50 more people in jobs. “If there were more people in the area, I could offer them jobs,’’ he says. “I would love to expand, but I don’t have the people I would need.” [Entrepreneur]
Labor Department proposes overtime pay for home health care workers. [Orlando Sentinel]
Portland business leaders optimistic, but need tech-savvy workers. [Forecaster]
Japan’s Legal Recruiting Trends: Hays Legal Survey Results. [PR Inside]
Future Force Personnel selected for “Top 25 Temporary Personnel & Staffing Agencies”. [MarketWatch]
Bernanke warns of weakness in U.S. job market. [The Globe and Mail]
Employment Law 2012 looking ahead to the changes. [mondaq]
A sustained increase in oil prices could “act as a brake on the [U.S. economic] recovery,” a top Federal Reserve official said Tuesday, noting that the central bank is watching the issue closely. [nasdaq]
