Staffing 360 Solutions acquires two firms, adds more than $85 million to top line

Staffing 360 Solutions Inc. (NASD: STAF), a staffing provider operating in the US and UK, today announced two acquisitions as well as the refinancing of Staffing 360’s balance sheet with current lenders. The company acquired Atlanta-based firstPRO Georgia, a US-based company targeting IT staffing and...

More than half of US workforce will have worked independently in next decade, MBO report says

More than half of the US workforce will work as an independent professional at some point over the next decade, according to predictions released today by MBO Partners, a provider of independent contractor engagement solutions. More than 40% of the American adult workforce reports currently or previously...

Online staffing firm Shiftgig names former LinkedIn exec as CEO

Online staffing platform Shiftgig named former LinkedIn executive Wade Burgess as CEO effective Monday. Burgess formerly served as global VP of talent solutions at LinkedIn and was chairman of the inaugural board of the LinkedIn for Good Foundation.

Former Shiftgig CEO Eddie Lou will remain with the company...

H-1B cap premium processing returns

US Citizenship and Immigration Services resumed premium processing today for all H-1B visa petitions subject to the fiscal year 2018 cap, which was set at 65,000 visas. Premium processing has also resumed for the annual 20,000 additional petitions that are set aside to hire workers with a US master’s...

Word of the week: Key performance indicator

“Key performance indicator,” or KPI, is defined by this year’s edition of Staffing Industry Analysts’ online Lexicon of workforce solutions ecosystem terms as a set of quantifiable measures that a company or industry uses to gauge or compare performance in terms of meeting their strategic...

Staffing exec says Gen Z is prime for disrupting workforce (Employee Benefit News)

Young workers, who were born 1994 or later, have a completely different approach to diversity, communication, technology and benefits preferences than the previous generations, and will expect their companies to keep up with their needs, said Jim Link, chief human resources officer at Randstad North...

ASA kicks off National Staffing Employee Week, names honorees

The American Staffing Association kicked off National Staffing Employee Week this week by naming Brittney Bourgeois as the 2018 National Staffing Employee of the Year. The week aims to honor the contributions of the more than 3 million temporary and contract employees who work through staffing firms....

Randstad survey: Refreshing skills is essential

Refreshing skills and competencies is considered essential to enhance employability according to Randstad’s third-quarter Workmonitor survey released today.

Globally, 90% of respondents indicated they believe in regularly refreshing their skills and competencies to enhance their employability. The percentages...

South Carolina staffing firm ordered to pay back wages, damages to disabled workers

A federal court ordered a South Carolina staffing firm to pay $165,402 in back wages and liquidated damages to four disabled workers it provided to a turkey processing plant, the US Department of Labor reported.

Work Services Inc. provides employees to work at Kraft Foods Global Inc.’s plant in Newberry,...

Online platform ExecThread lets execs share job leads; raises $6.5 million

ExecThread Inc., a New York-based network platform that lets execs share job leads, announced $6.5 million in equity financing.

ExecThread allows executives to anonymously contribute job opportunities they get approached for but don’t intend to pursue. In return for sharing jobs, members gain access...