Some tech firms welcome Trump’s H-1B reforms (Computerworld)

IT services firms that hire US workers and don’t offshore work are looking forward to President-elect Donald Trump's crackdown on H-1B visa use, Computerworld reported. The three IT services firms contacted for the story all said business is good and growing, thanks to expanding business digitization...

Virginia staffing company files for bankruptcy protection (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

Virginia staffing company files for bankruptcy protection (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

Excel Staffing Services Inc. in Richmond, Va., filed a bankruptcy petition Monday with the US Bankruptcy Court, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. The staffing agency, also known as Excel Management Services Inc., listed...

What I want to be when I grow up … (CWS 3.0)

Anyone working in the contingent labor industry — whether on the provider side or the buyer side — probably never aspired to do this work as a child, yet here we are today. Dawn McCartney, director of contingent workforce strategies and research for Staffing Industry Analysts, discusses how to educate...

Zenefits settles with California for $7 million

Online HR benefits services firm Zenefits reached a settlement with the California Insurance Commission for multiple license violations resulting in a $7 million penalty, Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced. The penalty is one of the largest penalties for licensing violations ever assessed in...

Online job ads fall by 115,300 in November, prior month’s gain offset

US online job ads fell by 115,300 in November to more than 4.73 million, according to The Conference Board’s report on online job ads. The November loss offsets the gain in October of 116,100 online job ads.

“With a pattern of monthly gains followed by losses, online demand has shown little movement...

Boston area posts lowest jobless rate

The Boston-Cambridge-Nashua metropolitan area in Massachusetts and New Hampshire posted the lowest unemployment rate among large metropolitan areas at 2.6% in October, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today.

The highest jobless rate among large metropolitan areas in October was posted by the...

More than half of retail companies will still comply with new overtime rule, survey finds

More than half of retail companies, 56%, still plan to comply with the planned Fair Standards Labor Act overtime rule for exempt employees on the date it was to go into effect, despite a Nov. 22 injunction that puts the plan on hold, according to a spot survey of US retailers by the Hay Group division...

ADP shows private employers added 216,000 jobs in November (MarketWatch)

Private employers hired far more workers than expected in November, suggesting the pace of hiring picked up after several months of moving sideways, MarketWatch reports. Payroll processor ADP said on Wednesday that 216,000 net new jobs were added in the month, much more than the Econoday consensus of...

Staffing agencies seek to nix revival of Exeter Hospital lawsuit (New Hampshire Union Leader)

Staffing agencies are asking a judge to deny Exeter Hospital's request to revive its lawsuit against them where the hospital alleges the staffing firms were at fault for recommending a drug-addicted technician who caused a hepatitis C outbreak, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported. The lawsuit was...

GDP revised upward, fastest pace in two years

US real gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.2% in the third quarter, according to the second estimate of GDP growth released today by the US Commerce Department. The new estimate is up from the “advance” estimate, which pegged growth at 2.9%.

In the second quarter, real GDP advanced...