Minneapolis plans for $15 minimum wage (Star Tribune)

Minneapolis City Council members yesterday released plans to require employers to increase workers’ pay to $15 an hour within five years, the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper reported. Other cities are also moving to $15 per hour minimum wages. Businesses in San Francisco will be required to pay...

Fusion Healthcare Staffing lands investment, names chairman

Fusion Healthcare Staffing LLC secured strategic equity financing from brothers Paul and Gregory Sorensen to continue its growth in the locum tenens staffing market. The transaction closed May 31 and terms were not disclosed.

In connection with the equity financing, Fusion expanded its board of directors...

‘Staffing for Canada Week’ is this week

This week is Staffing for Canada Week, the Association of Canadian Search, Employment and Staffing Services announced. The week aims at recognizing the more than 400,000 Canadians employed through the $13 billion staffing profession.

The week first began in 1980 as “National Temporaries’ Week” in...

Weekly staffing employment in Q1 down 0.5%, ASA reports

The number of workers employed per week by the US staffing industry edged down 0.5% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, according to data released by the American Staffing Association. US staffing companies employed an average of 3.07 million temporary and contract workers per...

Demand for family physicians pushes up salaries, according to Merritt Hawkins

Demand for family physicians is exerting upward pressure on starting salaries, according to a report released by Merritt Hawkins, the physician search division of AMN Healthcare Services Inc. (NYSE: AHS).

Merritt Hawkins’ 2017 Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives tracks...

Job openings hit record high in April

The number of US job openings in April rose 4.5% from March to a record high of 6.04 million, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, the number of hires fell 4.8%.

The job openings rate — a measure of job openings compared with total employment...

Lawsuit claims UPS, staffing firm discriminated against Muslims (ABC News)

ABC News reported the Council on American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit last week against Atlanta-based UPS and Edina, Minn.-based PEO Doherty Employer Services on behalf of two Muslim employees who said they were fired after their right to observe mandatory prayers during work hours was taken away....

May employment soft, but not overly concerning —Staffing quote of the week

“The employment report for May was soft in several respects but not overly concerning. So far, monthly job growth has looked at times too strong followed by months that looked too weak,” said Cornerstone Staffing Solutions President and CEO Steve Drexel. “May falls into the moderately, too weak...

Autonomously driven ‘passenger economy’ could reach $7 trillion, Intel says

Human cloud firm Uber has already experimented with autonomous vehicles, and more automation will likely play increasing roles in the workforce solutions ecosystem. However, tech firm Intel Crop predicted last week that autonomous vehicles will result in a new “passenger economy” that could grow...

Michigan PEO acquires HR outsourcing firm

AccessPoint, a Michigan-based professional employer organization, acquired HR outsourcing firm YourSource Management Group in an effort to enhance its “unbundled” HR outsourcing service platform.

AccessPoint also plans to purchase the YourSource Management Group headquarters building in Auburn Hills,...