State introduces portable benefits bill for gig economy (JD Supra Business Advisor)

Washington state is considering legislation that would create portable, prorated, universal benefits for workers in the sharing economy, Richard Meneghello of Fisher Phillips writes in JD Supra Business Advisor. The bill would require sharing economy companies to contribute money toward a benefits system...

Staffing firms using H-1B workers under more scrutiny

Staffing firms using H-1B visas are under further inspection in a program to fight visa fraud starting now, according to an announcement on Monday by US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Monday was the start of filing season for H-1B visas — used by highly skilled temporary foreign workers such...

Yoh acquires Silicon Valley firm ERG

Yoh acquired Embedded Resource Group Inc., a Silicon Valley-based specialty IT engineering recruitment firm, effective March 31. The acquisition expands Yoh’s IT staffing practice area.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Campbell, Calif.-based ERG provides staffing services and engineering...

Heidrick CEO takes medical leave of absence

Executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles International Inc. (NASD: HSII) announced CEO Tracy Wolstencroft is taking a three-month leave of absence for treatment of a benign lung condition, beginning April 3.

Wolstencroft joined Heidrick & Struggles as president and CEO in 2014, following a 25-year...

US adds 182,220 tech jobs in 2016, now 5% of private sector workforce

The US technology industry added 182,220 jobs in 2016 for an estimated total of 6.9 million jobs, according to a report released by CompTIA. The tech sector makes up 7.5% of the total GDP; it accounted for approximately 4.4% of the overall US workforce in 2016 and 5.2% of the private sector workforce....

Alphabet’s Waymo says Uber violated a court order (Recode)

Recode reports Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving company, claimed on Monday that human cloud firm Uber violated a court order to produce any and all documents in its possession that so much as mentioned information from the 14,000 confidential files allegedly downloaded by autonomous-car engineer Anthony...

Arkansas industry leader says temp workers needed — Staffing quote of the week

“So much of the need in Arkansas is temporary labor, especially in the ag and timber sectors,” Randy Zook, CEO of the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce/Associated Industries of Arkansas, told Arkansas Business. “Without temporary immigrant labor, there wouldn’t have been a pine tree planted...

GEE Group acquires SNI Companies for $86 million

GEE Group Inc. (NYSE MKT: JOB) acquired SNI Companies, a professional staffing and recruitment services provider. Under the terms of the agreement, the Naperville, Ill.-based staffing provider acquired SNI Companies for $86 million; the consideration was comprised of $44.7 million in cash, $28.8 million...

Temp staffing revenue growth decelerates in February but new orders jump

US temporary staffing revenue rose a median 5% year over year in February among staffing firms taking part in Staffing Industry Analysts’ monthly Pulse Survey. The 5% growth in February is a deceleration from the 10% rate reported in January.

“February’s data showed mixed signals for temp staffing...

HCMC Legal names former TrueBlue exec to lead legal staffing firms

HCMC Legal Inc., the parent company of Mestel & Company and Hire Counsel, hired Joan Davison as president, CEO and board member. Mestel & Co. and Hire Counsel are national legal placement and temporary attorney staffing and review management firms. Lynn Mestel, founder of both companies, will...