OSHA cites staffing provider in farmworker’s death

The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Rivera Agri Inc. — a provider of temporary agricultural labor — for failing to protect employees working in excessive heat after a farmworker succumbed to apparent heat-related symptoms while working in a cornfield...

Staffing 360 revenue up 42% with acquisitions but declines in core business

Staffing 360 Solutions Inc. (NASD: STAF), a staffing provider operating in the US and UK, reported third-quarter revenue rose 41.7%, which includes $26.9 million from four acquisitions: Clement May and Key Resources Inc. this year, and CBS Butler and Firstpro in 2017.

This was partially offset by a decline...

The Caldwell Partners’ revenue rise 19%

The Caldwell Partners International Inc. (TSX: CWL), a Toronto-based executive search firm, reported revenue rose 19.1% in its fiscal fourth quarter ended Aug. 31.

Recruit revenue up 7% in Q2 with Indeed and Glassdoor leading growth

Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd., one of the world’s largest staffing firms, reported revenue rose 7.3% in its fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 30. The fastest growth took place in the Tokyo-based company’s “HR Technology” segment, which includes job board Indeed and recently acquired Glassdoor. Revenue...

More than half tech professionals in metro New York tri-state area plan to switch jobs: Benchmark IT

Recruiting and retaining top talent is a constant challenge in the tri-state area of Metro New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey, according to the “Candidate Perspective Survey,” released today by Benchmark IT.

More than half of the area IT professionals polled, 58%, reported they intend to switch...

San Francisco Fed president: Full employment not ‘fixed target’ — Staffing quote of the week

San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly said the central bank should not be pleased with “full employment,” Yahoo Finance reported. “We shouldn’t think of ‘full employment’ as a fixed target, but instead think of it as something that can be moved,” Daly said. “From that perspective, there...

Uber releases report categorizing sexual assault claims (Bloomberg)

Uber yesterday released a new report, created in partnership with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center and the Urban Institute, that outlines how it will categorize incidents of sexual harassment, misconduct and assault. Bloomberg reported the taxonomy will help the human-cloud, ride-sharing...

Economists raise forecast for US job growth, outlook on unemployment rate mostly unchanged

Economists raised their estimates for job gains this year and in 2019 but kept their outlook for the unemployment rate mostly unchanged, according to the fourth-quarter Survey of Professional Forecasters released today by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.

The economists expect the unemployment...

Upwork lists fastest-growing skills for Q3; Dropbox API tops list

The top 10 skills on online staffing provider Upwork’s (NASD: UPWK) third-quarter list of the 20 fastest-growing skills in the US freelance job market are new to the index, and 75% of all the skills made the index for the first time.

Skills related to biotech, software development and mixed reality experienced...

North American Staffing 100 list nominations close at end of month

The deadline to submit nominations for the North American Staffing 100 list of movers and shakers in the staffing industry for 2019 is coming up at the end of this month.

The list will appear in the January/February issue of Staffing Industry Review magazine and comprises 100 men and women who have made...