BG Staffing acquires southeast IT staffing firm

BG Staffing Inc. (NYSE MKT: BGSF), a Plano, Texas-based staffing firm, acquired substantially all of the assets of Zycron Inc., effective April 3.

Zycron provides IT temporary staffing throughout the southeastern US region and selected markets across the country to Fortune 500 companies and government...

Economy: Jobless claims drop, CEO confidence at 13-year high

Jobless claims fell last week much more than expected, while CEO confidence rose in the first quarter to a 13-year high.

The US four-week moving average of initial claims for unemployment insurance fell to 250,000 last week, down 4,500 from the previous week’s average, according to seasonally adjusted...

NYC prohibits past pay inquiries (Lexology)

The New York City Council passed legislation yesterday that will prohibit employers from making inquiries regarding salary history during the hiring process, a measure aimed at addressing gender-based wage gaps. Under the new law, it will be an unlawful discriminatory practice to ask about the salary...

More than 8,000 gig economy drivers fail state’s background checks (Boston Globe)

In Massachusetts, more than 8,000 drivers for human cloud, ride-sharing firms Uber and Lyft were taken off the road after failing a new state background check, the Boston Globe reported. The number represents 11% of drivers. The human cloud firms are limited by state law to checking just the last seven...

Reuters reports private equity firm in discussions to buy CareerBuilder

Reuters reported that that private equity firm GTCR LLC is now in exclusive discussions to buy job board operator CareerBuilder for more than $1 billion, citing people familiar with the matter. GTCR is the firm that acquired a majority stake in vendor management system operator Beeline. Last month, Beeline...

US adds 263,000 private sector jobs, most since 2014, ADP reports

US private-sector employment jumped by 263,000 jobs in March from February, according to the ADP national employment report. This is an increase from 245,000 jobs added in February.

February’s increase was revised downward from 298,000.

Reuters reports US companies in March added the most workers since...

Ciber Germany files for insolvency, impacts sale to Allgeier

Ciber Inc. (NYSE: CBR) reported in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that its Ciber Germany division on March 30 filed an insolvency proceeding in Cologne, Germany. The company in February agreed to sell its business in Germany and Denmark to Allgeier SE, a Munich-based IT staffing...

Massachusetts temp firm, owners charged with wage theft

A Massachusetts staffing firm and its two owners were indicted in connection with an alleged wage theft scheme in which temporary workers were not paid minimum wage or overtime and were retaliated against during an investigation, Attorney General Maura Healey announced.

Robert Carrion, Fabiola Ramirez...

Economy: Online job ads, US nonmanufacturing, metro employment

Online job ads rose, US nonmanufacturing slowed its growth pace in March, and the Denver metropolitan area posted the lowest jobless rate among all large, US metropolitan areas.

Online job ads

US online job ads edged up by 102,000 in March to almost 4.64 million, according to The Conference Board’s report...

Judge temporarily blocks Seattle’s Uber and Lyft unionization law (The Seattle Times)

A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked the city’s first-in-the-nation law that attempts to allow Uber, Lyft and taxi drivers to unionize, The Seattle Times reported. Seattle’s law, passed in 2015, allows human cloud firms Uber and Lyft as well as taxi drivers — who are categorized as...