Instacart settles independent contractor class action for $4.6 million (TechCrunch)

Human cloud, online services firm Instacart agreed to settle an independent contractor class action lawsuit for $4.65 million, TechCrunch reported. There are more than 31,000 independent contractor shoppers involved in the lawsuit.

US workers at higher risk of robots taking jobs (CNN)

While 38% of jobs in the US are at risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence, only 30% of jobs in the UK are and only 21% of jobs in Japan are, CNN reported, citing a study by PwC. Although services jobs dominate both the US and UK labor markets, there are key differences that increase the number...

Legalpeople acquires Plante Moran ProjectTemps

Legalpeople, a Chicago-based legal staffing firm, acquired ProjectTemps, which provided legal document review and placement services at Plante Moran Chicago office.

Plante Moran is the nation’s 14^th-largest certified public accounting and business advisory firm, per the company.

The transaction closed...

Indeed lists best jobs of 2017

All but a few of the best jobs this year are technical roles, according to the best jobs of 2017 list released by jobs website Indeed. The list is based on number of job postings, salary and growth opportunity.

Seven of the top 10 jobs are software engineers and developers, led by full stack developer...

Brightfield Strategies names CFO, business development officer

Brightfield Strategies named Paul Ginocchio as CFO and Michael Benyamin as business development officer. Brightfield Strategies is the consulting partner to Staffing Industry Analysts’ Contingent Workforce Strategies council of staffing buyers.

Ginocchio most recently spent 18 years at Deutsche Bank...

Staffing exec pleads guilty to not paying $18 million in taxes, Feds say

The owner of an industrial staffing company pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of failing to pay more than $18 million in employment taxes, according to the US Department of Justice’s tax division.

Richard Floyd Tatum Jr., 57, owned Associated Marine & Industrial Staffing Inc., an industrial...

Freelancer firm Lystable raises $10 million, changes up business (TechCrunch)

Freelancer management firm Lystable raised an additional $10 million in funding, TechCrunch reports. Founder and CEO Peter Johnston says it will be used to fund a change of business centered on a payments solution that will enable companies to pay freelancers more easily. The round brings Lystable’s...

Jobless claims average edges up, initial claims jump to seven-week high

The US four-week moving average of initial claims for unemployment insurance rose to 240,000 last week, up 1,000 from the previous week’s average, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by the US Department of Labor. The previous week’s average was revised upward by 1,750.

The four-week...

Data breach at America’s Job Link Alliance (AL.com)

America’s Job Link Alliance, which provides a Web-based system that electronically connects job seekers with employers, was the victim of hacking, putting at risk the personal information from job applicants in 10 states, reports AL.com. The Kansas-based company confirmed that a malicious third-party...

Don’t take them for granted (CWS 3.0)

What has traditionally been one of the largest and easiest-to-fill segments within an organization’s workforce is no longer easy, Dawn McCartney writes in a new CWS 3.0 article. Program managers are struggling to find and — more importantly — keep their temporary light industrial/warehousing resources....