Vaco acquires Texas-based Aventine Hill Partners

Staffing provider Vaco acquired Aventine Hill Partners, a San Antonio, Texas-based firm that provides C-level advisory, consulting, interim and project solutions, and executive search.

Aventine Hill Partners targets the accounting and finance; business and technology; and risk and compliance...

Express Employment Professionals’ sales up 5% in 2018

Express Employment Professionals reported today that sales rose to a record $3.56 billion in 2018, up 5% from the previous year. The company ranks No. 6 on Staffing Industry Analysts' list of largest US staffing firms.

The Oklahoma City-based staffing company counts more than 800 franchise locations in...

‘Pathways’ emerging in gig economy’s pay and benefit problems — Staffing quote of the week

The pay and benefits problems faced by workers in the gig economy are slowly starting to shrink, according to experts at a gig economy workshop held by The Aspen Institute in Washington, DC last week. “I do see some pathways,” Maureen Conway, The Aspen Institute’s VP for policy programs...

Uber revenue up 43% in 2018, net loss at $1.8 billion (Reuters)

Uber Technologies Inc.’s full-year revenue rose to $11.3 billion in 2018, up 43% from the prior year, Reuters reported. The human cloud, ride-sharing firm’s losses before taxes, depreciation and other expenses were $1.8 billion compared to the $2.2 billion loss posted in 2017. However, Uber on Friday...

2019 Staffing 100 list now online

This year’s Staffing 100 list of influencers is now online. For the eighth year in a row, the list looks at those who are shaping the industry and influencing the workforce solutions ecosystem.

Honorees come from firms both large and small, from online staffing to more traditional firms.

Each day they...

AMN revenue up 4% in fourth quarter, but locum tenens revenue falls

AMN Healthcare Services (NYSE: AMN) reported revenue rose 3.8% in the fourth quarter, with growth coming in its nurse and allied business as well as its “other workforce solutions” business.

The San Diego-based company, which Staffing Industry Analysts ranks as the largest US healthcare staffing firm,...

PEO TriNet reports revenue up 8%

Fourth-quarter revenue rose 8.1% at professional employer organization TriNet Group Inc. (NYSE: TNET). The average number of worksite employees was basically flat, down 0.2% to approximately 321,880.

Workers comp policies sold in California by unlicensed firms

California employers who purchased insurance with American Labor Alliance and CompOne USA may not have valid policies. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office this week advised employers who purchased insurance from the two firms that these companies are not licensed to sell insurance in California....

People: ShiftPixy, Aleron, TargetCW, LAK Group

Human cloud platform firm ShiftPixy Inc. (NASD: PIXY) hired Kirk Flagg as chief compliance officer and secretary. He previously was COO of Kelly Staff Leasing, VP of human resources and government relations as well as a senior trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the US Department...

Government funding deal excludes back pay for contractors (NBC News)

President Donald Trump is blocking a measure to give back pay to federal contractors affected by last month’s government shutdown as part of a bipartisan agreement to avert another federal closure, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., told reporters Wednesday. NBC News reported hundreds of thousands...