Indeed to acquire Canadian jobs website Workopolis: Recruit Holdings

Jobs website Indeed will acquire Canadian jobs website Workopolis.com, Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd. announced today. Recruit, one of the world’s largest staffing firms, owns Indeed. The deal will close this month.

“Workopolis is a trusted brand and leading Canadian job site for both job seekers and employers,”...

CrowdFlower rebrands to Figure Eight, hires executives

CrowdFlower, a crowdsourcing platform provider in the online staffing space, rebranded as Figure Eight this week and announced the hiring of two new executives, a new board member and the promotion of an existing executive.

The company first wrote about the name change in a blog post in February.

“Changing...

Online job ads rise by 102,100 in March

US online job ads rose in March by 102,100 to approximately 4.8 million, according to The Conference Board’s report on online job ads. The March increase follows a sharp decrease in February.

Nine of the largest 10 online occupational categories posted increases in March. Ads for sales and...

US nonmanufacturing index decelerates in March, but employment portion increases

Economic activity in the US nonmanufacturing sector decelerated slightly in March, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s nonmanufacturing index released today.

ISM’s nonmanufacturing index edged down in March to a reading for 58.8 from February’s reading of 59.5. Readings above 50 generally...

Nashville, San Francisco areas post lowest jobless rates among large US metros

The Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin metropolitan area in Tennessee posted the lowest unemployment rate among all large, US metropolitan areas in February at 2.7%, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today. The San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward area in California followed at 2.9%.

The highest...

Business representative says Quebec law will impact staffing users (Montreal Gazette)

A proposed law in Quebec will require equal pay for temporary workers and make staffing buyers jointly responsible for financial obligations to workers, Stéphane Forget, president and CEO of the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec, wrote in an opinion piece in the Montreal Gazette newspaper...

Staffing internal workers perceive automation poses little or no risk to their jobs, SIA report

Despite increasing use of technology by staffing firms — as well as rapid growth in automated forms of staffing such as human cloud platforms — staffing firm internal staff see little likelihood that such changes will affect their future job prospects, according to the report, “North America Internal...

Finance execs plan increased hiring; 57% to add temp and part-time workers, global survey finds

Senior financial executives worldwide expect economic growth in the year ahead and plan to increase their companies’ workforce, according to the 2018 Global Business & Spending Outlook released today by American Express and institutional investor Thought Leadership Studio. The report is based...

Insight Global to pay almost $355,000 in back wages following DOL investigation

Insight Global LLC, the third-largest IT staffing provider in the US, will pay $354,978 in back wages to 14 employees for violating provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act, the US Department of Labor announced. An investigation by the Department’s Labor...

H-1B visa filing period now open

The filing period for H-1B visas — temporary work visas for highly skilled foreign workers — began Monday for the upcoming 2019 federal fiscal year. The number of H-1B visas is capped at 85,000, but the cap was reached in the first week for the fifth year in a row last year.

However, the H-1B visa...