Feds suspend premium H-1B processing; more worrying, raises uncertainty

Premium processing of some H-1B visa petitions was suspended for up to six months, US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Friday. Premium processing allows for visas to be processed within 15 calendar days rather than months for H-1Bs, which are used by companies, including staffing firms,...

Illinois Attorney General warns job boards over potential age discrimination

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Thursday sent letters to six national career and job search companies warning that older users of certain websites and apps are prohibited from accessing important functions because of their age, potentially violating the Illinois Human Rights Act and the federal...

iWorkGlobal appoints former ZeroChaos senior VP as operations exec

iWorkGlobal today appointed Melissa Oliva as senior VP of client solutions to oversee all operations for the company, which provides a suite of compliance and international workforce solutions.

This is a newly created role within iWorkGlobal to facilitate further expansion.

Oliva previously was senior...

Adecco CEO sees European growth reflected in Q4 (Bloomberg)

CEO Alan Dehaze said sales momentum pushed Adecco Group’s growth to 6% in the fourth quarter compared to an average of 4% growth in 2016 — which means that a lot of European countries are growing, especially in southern Europe. France also improved to 9% growth in in the fourth quarter, driven by...

Disgruntled Uber employees are reportedly talking to recruiters and rival firms (Business Insider)

Business Insider reports disgruntled Uber employees are signing up with recruitment agencies and talking to rival firms as they look to exit the company, according to the Financial Times. “I have seen quite a few people who have been looking to leave Uber,” said a recruiter who reportedly used to...

Kelly CEO proposes new association for IC aggregators

Should independent contractor aggregators such as human cloud firms that provide on-demand staffing and companies that manage pools of independent contractors — for example, Kelly Services Inc. (NASD: KELYA) and MBO Partners — form an association to represent the interests of independent contractors?...

US nonmanufacturing economic index hits highest level since October 2015

Economic activity in the US nonmanufacturing expanded at the fastest pace in almost a year and a half, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s nonmanufacturing index released today.

ISM’s nonmanufacturing index rose in February to a reading of 57.6 from January’s reading of 56.5. This...

Canadian GDP edges up in Q4

Canada’s real gross domestic product rose 0.6% in the fourth quarter, following a 0.9% decline in the third quarter, Statistics Canada reported. Expressed at an annualized rate, real GDP rose 2.6% in the fourth quarter; in comparison, real GDP in the US rose at an annualized rate of 1.9% in the fourth...

People: CorTech, AESC, MRINetwork, Beacon Hill, Gigster and more

Staffing provider CorTech International promoted Jennifer White to VP of centralized search operations. She has been with CorTech for seven years and has managed large MSP/VMS accounts. Past roles at CorTech include recruiter, account manager and director of search.

The Association of Executive Search...

Uber’s CEO admits need for leadership help: What should it look like? (Gadgets 360)

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick on Tuesday made an unusually public call for help after a dashcam video of a heated exchange with one of his company's drivers went viral online. “This is the first time I've been willing to admit that I need leadership help and I intend to get it,” Kalanick wrote in a post...