HealthcareSource to acquire Centricity Contingent Staffing software platform

HealthcareSource struck a deal with GE Healthcare to acquire Centricity Contingent Staffing — a provider of software to healthcare staffing firms that was formerly API Healthcare’s Clearview Staffing Software.

Centricity Contingent Staffing software’s functionality ranges from onboarding and competency...

Barrett’s revenue rises 14% in Q4, PEO revenue up 15%

Barrett Business Services Inc. (NASD: BBSI) reported revenue rose 14.1% in the fourth quarter. Net professional employer organization revenue rose 14.9%.

While client build remained strong with 185 net new clients added, same-customer sales were affected by severe weather in some markets, with some clients...

PageGroup 2016 revenue up 3.6% in constant currency

International specialist recruitment firm PageGroup plc reported full-year 2016 revenue rose 3.6% in constant currency at prior-year rates. The increase as reported was 12.3%.

US adds 298,000 private sector jobs, exceeds forecast, ADP reports

US private-sector employment rose by 298,000 jobs in February ffrom January, according to the ADP national employment report. This is an increase from 261,000 jobs added in January.

January’s increase was revised upward from 246,000.

Economists surveyed by Reuters had forecast the report would show a...

Online job ads fall by 360,200 in February, methodology under review

US online job ads fell by 360,200 in February to about 4.5 million, according to The Conference Board’s report on online job ads.

February data incorporates the annual revisions to data. In addition, The Conference Board reported the data series has experienced a declining trend in the number of online...

As US shale oil drilling rebounds, few takers for $80,000 jobs (Bloomberg News)

Crude is nowhere near its $100-plus per-barrel highs of recent years, but drillers pounced after it steadily crept back up from the $26 bottom it sank to early last year, Bloomberg News reports. And as they tap more and more new wells, the rebound is spreading quickly, and powerfully, to the oilfield-services...

Feds may stop spouses of H-1B visa holders from working in US (CNNMoney)

The Department of Justice filed a brief in the Washington DC court of appeals for a 60-day freeze on a case involving employment authorization for H-4 visa holders. Since 2015, spouses of H-1B visa holders waiting for green cards have been eligible to work in the US on H-4 dependent visas. But CNNMoney...

Increase in Korn Ferry’s fiscal Q3 driven by Hay Group

Korn Ferry International Inc. (NYSE: KFY) reported total fee revenue rose 11.0% in its fiscal third quarter ended Jan. 31. It was primarily driven by a 25% increase at Hay Group, which Korn Ferry acquired in December 2015. The increase was 13.3% in constant currency.

Revenue at Korn Ferry’s Futurestep...

BG Staffing revenue falls 4% in Q4

BG Staffing Inc. (NYSE MKT: BGSF) reported revenue fell 3.6% in the fourth quarter to $64.3 million. However, gross margin improved at the Plano, Texas-based staffing provider.

GOP introduces bill to replace ACA

A proposed replacement to the Affordable Care Act that will do away with both employer and individual mandates was released on Monday by House Republicans. The 123-page bill, named the American Health Care Act, also replaces ACA subsidies with tax credits and repeals mandates that individuals purchase...