Labor Department sues Massachusetts seafood processor, employment agency

The US Department of Labor is suing a Gloucester, Mass., seafood processing, packing and distribution business; a Lowell, Mass.-based temporary employment agency and payroll service that supplies temporary workers exclusively to the business, and their respective owners, for allegedly underpaying 55...

CTO is highest-paid digital marketing pro: $241,000 salary at high end

Chief technology officers rank as the highest-paid digital marketing professionals in 2016 with a salary range of $140,000 to $241,000, according to a report by Mondo, a provider of technology and marketing staffing. Other high-paying positions include chief marketing officer with a salary range of $140,000...

Blackstone in the lead to acquire Team Health (Reuters)

Reuters reports private equity firm Blackstone Group LP is the lead bidder to acquire Team Health Holdings Inc. (NYSE: TMH), a clinical outsourcing provider in healthcare provider. Team Health has been the target of activist funds, including Jana Partners LLC, according to people familiar with the matter....

Private equity firm takes majority stake in AHS Staffing

BelHealth Investment Partners LLC, a healthcare-focused private equity firm, acquired AHS Staffing LLC, a healthcare staffing firm based in Edmond, Okla. AHS operates two divisions: pharmastat for pharmacy staffing and renalstat for dialysis travel nurses.

BelHealth acquired a majority stake in the company...

Recruit invests in California-based robot company

Recruit Holdings Co., one of the world’s largest staffing firms, invested in San Jose, Calif.-based Savioke, Inc., a company that provides autonomous delivery service robots. The amount invested was not announced.

Savioke’s autonomous delivery robot “Relay” has been mainly used in hotels, where...

Machine learning and Tableau among hottest Upwork skills

Machine learning and Tableau rank among the fastest-growing, in-demand skills in the US online jobs market, according to the third-quarter skills index released today by Upwork of the top 20 hottest skills on its online staffing platform. Data science was the fastest-growing category.

The 20 hottest skills,...

Skilled trades remain hardest jobs to fill, ManpowerGroup reports

Skilled trade vacancies ranked as the hardest-to-fill jobs in the US for the seventh consecutive year, according to ManpowerGroup’s (NYSE: MAN) 11th annual talent shortage survey. In addition to the US, skilled trades roles also ranked as the hardest jobs to fill on a global basis — for the fifth...

EEOC chair speaks on big data in employment — Staffing quote of the week

“Big data has the potential to drive innovations that reduce bias in employment decisions and help employers make better decisions in hiring, performance evaluations and promotions,” said US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Jenny Yang at a panel discussion on the growing use of algorithms...

Four newspaper headlines tell the whole story of the US labor market (Yahoo Finance)

Yahoo Finance reports on four recent media reports passed along by Neil Dutta, an economist at Renaissance Macro. The reports show labor is regaining much of the power it lost during the financial crisis, with each of these reports including the clearest sign that workers feel emboldened amid a tighter...

Yoh acquires Starpoint Solutions, a tech staffing and solutions provider

Technology staffing firm Yoh today announced the acquisition of Starpoint Solutions, a company with nearly $100 million in annual revenue. While technology staffing comprises most of New York-based Starpoint’s business, it also provides project solutions that allow clients to outsource custom application...