Average US weekly wage rises 2% in Q2, Silicon Valley county posts highest wage

The US average weekly wage rose to $989 in the second quarter of 2016, up 2.2% when compared with the same quarter the prior year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.

California’s Santa Clara County, home to Silicon Valley, posted the highest average weekly wage among all large US county areas...

Jobless claims drop by 10,000, keep record low pace of layoffs intact (MarketWatch)

The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits in early December fell by 10,000 to 258,000, keeping the pace of layoffs near the lowest level in more than 40 years as the holiday season got underway. MarketWatch reports new claims had hit a five-month high the week prior, though claims...

AMECH announces new president for 2017-18 (Staffing América Latina)

The Mexican Association of Human Capital Companies named a new board of directors and appointed Edmundo Escobar as president to lead AMECH for the 2017-2018 biennium, Staffing América Latina reported. Escobar will replace Laura Obregón Bermúdez in the role. Other members of the new board of directors...

Preparing for an uncertain future (CWS 3.0)

It is safe to say that 2016 has been a tumultuous year, writes Bryan Peña in a CWS 3.0 article. Simply put, now more than ever, we are confronted with an uncertain future. Peña, senior VP, contingent workforce strategies and research at Staffing Industry Analysts, discusses what you can do to prepare...

Korn Ferry reports executive search revenue flat in fiscal Q2

Executive search fee revenue was roughly flat at Korn Ferry International Inc. (NYSE: KFY) in the fiscal second quarter ended Oct. 31. However, revenue in its Futurestep division rose 12.5%, and top line fee revenue got a boost with the acquisition of the Hay Group in the third quarter of last year....

US job openings little changed in October

The number of US job openings in October edged down 1.7% from September to 5.4 million, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The number of hires also fell 2.2% from September.

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

IT leaders expect increased hiring, but salary growth rates to slow

The majority of IT leaders expect both their full-time and contingent workforce teams to grow or remain the same, according to TEKsystems’ annual IT Forecast research. However, just one-third expect to increase salaries in 2017.

Hiring expectations for both full-time roles and contingent staff have...

Salaries to rise for accounting/finance and IT in Chicago, South Florida

Expect salaries for accounting, finance and IT professionals in the greater Chicago and south Florida markets to increase in the coming 12 months, according to the 2017 Salary Guides released by staffing provider Brilliant. The research expects salaries in the coming year to increase by an average of...

Class-action lawsuit alleges temp company screened African-American (Law 360)

Law 360 reports a group of African-American men filed a class action suit in Illinois federal court Tuesday accusing a national staffing agency of sending them to the most difficult assignments or denying them work altogether based on stereotypes about their race, part of what their attorneys call a...

You have a job, but it’s not permanent — The Staffing Stream

We all do it — we all refer to workers we employ directly as “permanent,” Subadhra Sriram, Staffing Industry Analysts’ editor and publisher, media products, writes in a The Staffing Stream blog post. But regardless of classification, no job really justifies that term. Temporary workers love to...