RCM Technologies revenue up in Q2 but gross margin narrows

RCM Technologies Inc. (NASD: RCMT) revenue rose 13.6% in the second quarter. However, gross profit margin narrowed at the Pennsauken, NJ-based provider of engineering, healthcare and IT staffing.

IT staffing provider W3Global acquires healthcare staffing firm Protouch

IT professional services and staffing provider W3Global Inc. acquired Pro-Touch Nurses Inc. dba Protouch Staffing Inc., a healthcare staffing company headquartered in Plano, Texas.

The acquisition is a strategic expansion into a new vertical for W3Global. Protouch Staffing provides nurse and allied healthcare...

Tech’s upcoming impact on the staffing industry (Staffing Industry Review)

Technology — including artificial intelligence — will have an impact on the staffing industry. Already, 38% of all companies (not just staffing) use AI for recruitment now, and 62% plan to do so by the end of the year. Writer Leslie Stevens-Huffman covers the effect of technology in an article in...

Massachusetts law on noncompete agreements to take effect Oct. 1 (Mintz Levin)

A Massachusetts law covering noncompete agreements in employment contracts will go into effect Oct. 1, and it will have significant implications for employers, according to a blog post by Katharine Beattie and Jennifer Budoff of law firm Mintz Levin. “While employers will still be able to utilize noncompete...

Slight uptick in worker pay forecast for 2019: Willis Towers Watson

Slightly larger pay increases may be in store for next year, according to a survey of 814 employers by Willis Towers Watson. It found the average pay increase for exempt, nonmanagement (professional) employees will be 3.1% in 2019, that compares with 3.0% this year.

Nonexempt hourly employees will see...

Revenue falls 13% at GEE Group, but direct-hire revenue up

Revenue fell 12.6% at GEE Group (NYSE American: JOB) in its fiscal third quarter ended June 30. Contract staffing revenue fell 15.5% at the Jacksonville, Fla.-based staffing provider, but direct-hire revenue rose 6.7%.

Command Center revenue down 1% amid impact of tight job market

Command Center Inc. (NasdaqCM: CCNI) reported second-quarter revenue fell 1.3%. The Denver-based industrial staffing provider said the decrease was driven by higher-than-normal turnover in sales positions as a result of the tight job market.

Staffing firms must pay $394,438 to Arizona warehouse workers

More than 120 workers in Arizona will receive $394,438 in back wages and liquidated damages from three staffing firms in a lawsuit that claimed the firms took part in a scheme not to pay overtime, the US Department of Labor announced Monday. The workers had worked at an Albertson’s warehouse in Tolleson,...

New book discusses temporary work and the future (US News and World Report)

Historian Louis Hyman discusses the future of work and how the US economy is changing perhaps for the better in an article in US News & World Report. Hyman recently released a new book, Temp: How American Work, American Business and the American Dream Became Temporary. “In the 21st century, we...

The benefit of being a locum tenens – Staffing quote of the week

“The beauty of locum tenens is that I work really hard at an assignment for a couple weeks or a month. I may be tired at the end of it, but I know that I’m going to have a break,” said Dr. Monica Anselmetti, an obstetrician, in an announcement from staffing provider CompHealth, part of CHG...