Investment firm Mitsui to acquire Accountable Healthcare Staffing

Tokyo-based investment firm Mitsui & Co. Ltd. agreed to acquire Accountable Healthcare Staffing, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based healthcare staffing provider that ranks No. 15 on Staffing Industry Analysts’ list of largest healthcare staffing firms in the US.

The transaction is expected to close within...

Adecco CEO calls for G20 to address digitalization, robotization, artificial intelligence

The Adecco Group, the world’s largest staffing firm and a member of Business 20 — the business community of the Group of 20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, known as the G20 — called on leading and emerging economies to change regulations and education to adapt to the rapidly...

Online job ads fall in June, healthcare and business/finance post largest losses

US online job ads fell by 45,800 in June to approximately 4.76 million, according to The Conference Board’s report on online job ads released today.

The Conference Board’s measure of online job ads is aimed at tracking demand for labor. However, the organization noted there has been a declining trend...

Department of Labor tells court it will revise overtime rule (Bloomberg BNA)

The US Department of Labor told an Appeals Court last week that it plans to revise the overtime rule put in place during the Obama Administration, according to a report in Bloomberg BNA. The agency also asked the court to reaffirm it has the right to determine salary levels for overtime pay. The...

Lyft co-founder on ride-sharing and competition (CBS News)

CBS News correspondent John Blackstone drove in San Francisco with Lyft president and co-founder John Zimmer, who told him the company is “trying to make history by building a new form of transportation.”

ISM manufacturing index hits three-year high

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in June at the fastest pace in three years, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index for US manufacturing. June’s index reading was 57.8, up from May’s reading of 54.9.

Any reading above 50% generally indicates...

Temp staffing revenue rose a median 6% in latest Pulse report

In May, US temporary staffing revenue rose a median 6% year over year for the third consecutive month among staffing firms taking part in Staffing Industry Analysts’ monthly pulse survey.

“Temporary staffing continued to grow steadily with most of the segments showing positive trends in revenue and...

State lauds staffing firm for catching phony nurse

A man scheduled to start work as a registered nurse was instead arrested at a California hospital on suspicion of identity theft after his documentation raised a red flag for a staffing firm, the California Department of Consumer Affairs reported.

Jeremy Daniel Griffin, of West Hollywood, was met at Saint...

Florida staffing firm settles discrimination claim

Sellari’s Enterprises Inc. reached a settlement agreement to resolve allegations that the Orlando, Fla., staffing services provider discriminated against work-authorized immigrants when verifying their work authorization, which violates of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the US Justice Department...

Judge lets IC misclassification case against GrubHub proceed (Ars Technica)

A judge allowed an independent contractor lawsuit against GrubHub to go forward, and it could now go to trial this fall, Arstechnica reported. The case “was initially brought as a proposed class-action but was not certified — leaving the single plaintiff to file claims under a state law known as...