Contract watch: AMN Healthcare

AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (NYSE: AHS), the largest US healthcare staffing firm, received a group purchasing agreement for managed services provider services with Premier Inc.

Effective Aug. 1, the new agreement allows Premier members, at their discretion, to take advantage of value-adds and terms pre-negotiated...

Randstad Workmonitor: Lifelong learning essential for employability

Lifelong learning is considered essential to increase employability and avoid unemployment, according to Randstad’s second-quarter Workmonitor survey released today.

Globally, 86% of respondents said they need to keep learning in order to retain and increase employability. The percentages ranged from...

Infosys settles New York visa, tax case for $1 million (Bloomberg BNA)

Bloomberg BNA reported Infosys (NYSE: INFY), a global IT services and outsourcing provider, will pay New York state $1 million to settle a whistleblower case alleging that the company violated US visa requirements and underpaid state taxes by using B-1 visa holders to do work that should otherwise have...

Fed policymaker sees gradual rate hikes (Reuters)

With the US economy at full employment and inflation set to hit the Federal Reserve’s 2% target next year, the US central bank needs to keep raising rates gradually to keep the economy on an even keel, Reuters reports San Francisco Federal Reserve President John Williams said today. “If we delay...

Almost one-third of temps find agencies through recommendations

Temporary workers are almost as likely to find their staffing agency through the referral of a friend or colleague as they are by being directly recruited, according to research recently released by Staffing Industry Analysts.

The survey asked temporary workers how they first learned about their current...

ACA overhaul legislation may face battle passing, but employer mandate could benefit staffing

Proposed legislation to overhaul the Affordable Care Act was released by Senate Republicans on Thursday. One of the major impacts on staffing firms, if it becomes law, would be the elimination of the employer mandate. However, the legislation, known as the “Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017,”...

In tech, Shiftgig hires CTO, Beeline VMS partners with online staffing firm, Sense lands $10 million

This was a big week for technology news with Google launching its Google for Jobs artificial intelligence job search tool and Travis Kalanick stepping down from his role as CEO of human cloud, ride-sharing firm Uber. There was other news as well affecting the workforce ecosystem, from online staffing...

People: SolomonEdwards, O’Rourke, ZRG, Korn Ferry and more

SolomonEdwards, a business advisory and professional staffing firm headquartered in Wayne, Penn., appointed Bridgette Chambers as managing partner of its West Coast region, based in San Francisco. She will lead the region’s overall practice, management and daily operations. Chambers led several organizations...

The importance of keeping workers engaged (The Staffing Stream)

Chatter at the recent HR Tech World conference in San Francisco was all about what technology can do to keep workers engaged. Staffing Industry Analysts Senior Editor Craig Johnson discusses some of the ideas, which ran the gamut from simple to funky, in a new The Staffing Stream blog post.

The World Employment Confederation turns 50 (WEC)

The World Employment Confederation, the global association representing the staffing and recruitment industry, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. “We have come a long way as an organization and as an industry,” World Employment President Annemarie Muntz was quoted in an online post. “It...