Staffing exec and first African American woman to run a $1B firm, discusses business, personal journey (Los Angeles Times)

Janice Bryant Howroyd, owner of the Act-1 Group and the first African American woman to run a $1 billion business, is profiled in the Los Angeles Times on early lessons she learned in business, adding niches and standing out. “It always works best when you can tailor a hire to fit into a company’s...

Gig economy worker is not an employee; judge rules Grubhub driver is independent contractor

A federal judge yesterday in San Francisco ruled a driver for Grubhub Inc. (NYSE: GRUB) — a human cloud, restaurant delivery platform — was classified correctly as an independent contractor, rather than an employee. US Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley handed down the decision in the...

Medical Solutions to acquire healthcare staffing firm PPR

Medical Solutions, an Omaha, Neb.-based nurse staffing firm, agreed to acquire PPR, a provider of travel nurse staffing and interim leadership for acute and post-acute markets.

This marks Medical Solution’s first publicized deal since it was acquired by private equity firm TPG Growth in June from Beecken...

VMS provider DCR Workforce names chief growth officer and exec VP

Vendor management system provider DCR Workforce named Daniel Weinfurter as chief growth officer. In addition, the Boca Raton, Fla.-based firm appointed Dennis Kanegaye as executive VP of implementation.

A serial entrepreneur, Weinfurter founded and was CEO of GrowthPlay as well as two other private...

Insperity to provide $9 million in bonuses in wake of tax reform

Professional employer organization Insperity Inc. (NYSE: NSP) announced it will provide one-time bonuses to its employees, made possible through the US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The amount of the bonuses will range from $1,000 to $4,000 per employee, dependent upon the employee’s tenure with the...

Canada drops 88,000 jobs in January; loss of part-time jobs offsets rise in full-time jobs

Following two months of increases, Canada lost 88,000 jobs in January from December to a total of almost 18.6 million jobs, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by Statistics Canada. A loss of 137,000 part-time jobs in January offset a gain of 49,000 full-time jobs.

Declines were spread...

People: Lyft, BG Staffing, Heidrick, LandrumHR, MRINetwork, ZRG and more

Human cloud, ride-sharing firm Lyft named former Tesla executive Jon McNeill as chief operating officer, Lyft announced the hire in a blog post. McNeill had served as president of global sales and service at Tesla. Prior to that, McNeill background includes starting and operating eight technology and...

Uber and Waymo reach settlement (Forbes)

Forbes reported Uber and Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving company, stunned a courtroom on Friday when the parties announced they had reached a settlement in a lawsuit alleging Uber stole trade secrets from Waymo. As part of the agreement, Uber will give Waymo an equity payout of 0.34% of its Series G...

TrueBlue revenue declines in Q4 despite increase in PeopleScout, which includes RPO & MSP

TrueBlue Inc. (NYSE: TBI) reported revenue fell 8.8% in its fiscal fourth quarter. However, the fourth quarter of 2016 had more days than the fourth quarter of 2017, and the year-over-year decrease in revenue was 1.6% on a comparable basis. And while revenue fell in the company’s PeopleReady and PeopleManagement...

Calian’s revenue up 10% in fiscal Q1; firm announces changes to executive team

Calian Group Ltd. (TSX: CGY) reported revenue rose 10.2% to in its fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 31. Revenue rose 12.1% in the company’s “business and technology services” segment, which includes staffing, and 5.9% in the company’s “systems engineering” segment.