Barrett investigation finds no effect on net income

Barrett Business Services Inc. (NASD: BBSI) announced an independent forensic accounting investigation concluded that while certain expenses shifted between the periods reviewed, it had no effect on pretax income, net income or earnings per share on a cumulative basis for the periods under investigation....

ManpowerGroup tops list of largest staffing firms in Mexico

ManpowerGroup (NYSE: MAN) remains the largest staffing company in Mexico with more than a third of the formal staffing market, according to the 2016 list of largest staffing firms in Mexico recently released by Staffing Industry Analysts. The list is based on 2015 revenue.

ManpowerGroup comprises 37.9%...

Wage growth accelerates in Q1, ADP report finds

Employers appear to be reacting to a tightening labor market by boosting wages to retain talent, according to the ADP Workforce Vitality Report released today.

The report tracks a set of full-time workers to determine wage growth among those who are consistently employed. This set of full-time workers...

Tech firms dominate Glassdoor’s list of highest-paying companies

Management consulting firm A.T. Kearney ranked as the highest-paying company in America but tech firms make up the bulk of the highest-paying firms, according to a pay report released today by Glassdoor.

Twenty of the 25 companies operate in the technology industry, four in the consulting industry and...

Change independent contractor distinction for gig economy, think tank says

Congress should modernize the distinction between full-time employees and independent contractors when it comes to the gig economy, according to an announcement by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a technology think tank.

“The US labor market has diversified considerably in recent...

TriNet to pay $1 million in back overtime pay, damages

TriNet Group Inc. (NYSE: TNET) will pay $1 million in back overtime wages and damages combined to 267 employees of its subsidiary TriNet Human Resources Inc., the US Department of Labor announced Monday. The Department of Labor registered the case against TriNet Human Resources, the entity that is on...

Demographic, business pressures increase gap between jobs, qualified workers

The Conference Board reported much of its labor shortages predicted in September 2014, at a time when most observers were still focused on slow employment recovery from the Great Recession, have come to pass.

“As we were among the first to predict nearly two years ago, a combination of demographic and...

Median earnings of US workers up 2.7% in Q1

Median weekly earnings of US full-time wage and salary workers rose 2.7% year over year in the first quarter to $830 (not seasonally adjusted), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today.

Women who usually worked full time had median weekly earnings of $750, or 82.2% of the $912 median for men,...

Disconnect between employers and job seekers, survey finds

In today’s employment landscape, “passive” job seekers with a wide network of referrals have the advantage over “active” job seekers, according to the “Active Job Seeker Dilemma” survey released today by online job board operator Beyond, The Career Network and research firm Future Workplace....

Apple co-founder on Uber — Staffing quote of the week

“Uber will push their workforce down to the absolute lowest minimum wage that they can get away with,” Mashable quotes Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as saying at the Future Transport Summit in Sydney, Australia. “That’s how I think of Uber: Not very nice thoughts,” he continued. “I want...