Addeco has announced a new finance director naming Iker Barricat CFO of Adecco in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. [20 Minutos]
Former owner of Best Temps of Oklahoma has been sentenced to two years in prison for failing to pay more than $1 million in payroll taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. [Hire Centrix]
Dallas Entrepreneur Nina Vaca-Humrichouse, chief executive officer for Pinnacle Technical Resources, named Founding Board Member for Startup America Partnership. [San Francisco Chronicle]
Advanced Resources LLC has announced Patty Bogosh as Managing Director of Advanced’s Chicago office. [PR Web]
State House committee meets to consider change to non-compete rules today. [Boston]
Jobbing is a new online employment agency promising to find work for jobseekers within an hour. [Globes]
BCforward announced the formation of PMforward. “While BCforward will continue to deliver IT outsourcing, staffing and system solutions to our clients, we can now solely focus on project management as a discipline to better serve our customers,” said Terrill Krigger, Director of Account Delivery at BCforward. [Inside Indiana Business]
Command Center, Inc responds to the immediate need for workers to begin clean-up and recovery efforts in flooded areas of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania affected by Hurricane Irene. [Market Watch]
Cisco invests $75 million into Partner Led channel strategy. [IT Business]
Jose Baez, the lawyer who’s fame hails from the Casey Anthony murder trial, has been retained by Gary Giordano’s father, Frank, to defend Gary Giordano. Giordano is jailed in Aruba for the presumed death of Robyn Gardner. Baez confirmed his hiring in a text message to The Associated Press but declined to provide details about his role in the Aruba case. [Arizona Central]
Knoxville-based hospital staffing firm TeamHealth said today that it plans to expand its billing operations in Blount County, creating hundreds of new jobs. [Knoxville News Sentinel Co.]
“…the Lockheed Martin Taiwan F-16 program would generate some $8.7 billion in output (gross product) and more than 87,651 person-years of employment in the US. Approximately 23,407 person-years of employment represent direct activity associated with the production and direct supply procurement process. The project would also yield almost $768.0 million in Federal tax revenues, as well as about $593.7 million to various State and Local governments.” [The Perryman Group]
The Taiwan Employment Act and F-16 offset agreement means jobs but in which country has yet to be seen. [Time Battleland Blogs]
Privatizing local government: A closer look at government operations and the opportunities staffing agencies undoubtedly have. Will you help government and community staffing? What are some challenges you have run into when working with government clients? Send your staffing story to guest@staffingtalk.com [WRDW]
House Republicans will take up the contentious debate over the National Labor Relations Board’s efforts to block Boeing from operating a $750 million aircraft assembly line in South Carolina instead of Washington State. Will House Republicans see past union agenda onward to job creation and economic stimulation? [New York Times]
Michael Page International conducted a survey on the different profiles of managers and directors in Latin America. [TRAZACOMEX]
Kforce Inc.: moving on up. [FNN Online]
Prices increase as real earnings fall. [U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics]
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration awarded $10.7 million in Susan Harwood Training Grants to 37 new and 32 returning recipients. [The U.S. Department of Labor]
US Department of Labor awards more than $191 million for unemployment insurance program integrity and technology infrastructure systems. [The U.S. Department of Labor]
