More hiring predicted than for year-end 2003 - 12/17/2003
More U.S. employers are planning to hire in the first three months of 2004 than those who planned to add employees in the current quarter, but expectations do not show any big jump when compared ... -quarter 2003. Jobs were expected to be most plentiful in the West, with 23% of employers...
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Special Report: The food factor - Yes, there is growth beyond health care. And it's edible - 4/30/2004
Fashions in apparel, computers and telecommunications devices may wax and wane with each new season, bell or whistle, but food remains a constant. Bluntly put, we all gotta eat, which by extension ...
Fashions in apparel, computers and telecommunications devices may wax and wane with e...
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Retailers hiring temps for the holidays - 9/20/2013
Target plans to hire about 70,000 seasonal workers for the upcoming holiday season, down from 88,000 last year. Target aims for to be more efficient in its hiring practices and will first offer ... Target plans to hire about 70,000 seasonal workers for the upc...
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U.S. frees up temporary visas - 6/09/2005
A new congressional act makes it easier for employers in the hospitality industry to find workers from overseas to fill summer jobs.
... -term foreign workers are seeing mixed results from new rules that open the gate to thousands of unskilled, nonimmigrant workers.
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UPS to hire up to 95,000 holiday workers; FedEx to bring aboard 50,000 - 9/17/2014
UPS (NYSE: UPS) expects to hire between 90,000 and 95,000 seasonal employees to support the anticipated holiday surge in package deliveries that begins in October and continues through January 2015 ... UPS (NYSE: UPS) expects to hire between 90,000 and 95,000 seasonal em...
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Payrolls rise 121,000, jobless rate unchanged; temporary help growth continues to slip - 7/07/2006
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 121,000 employees in June and the unemployment rate held steady at 4.6%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.
... , or 0.1%, in June from May, seasonally adjusted. The workforce stood at 3.6 million, an increase of 88,700 from June 2005, o...
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Washington state bill may tackle temp worker noncompetes - 2/02/2016
A bill in Washington state would void some employment noncompete agreements with temporary or seasonal employees and independent contractors. The bill by Rep. Derek Stanford, a Democrat, would add ... A bill in Washington state would void some employment noncompete agreements with...
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Trends To Act On: The Non-Retirement Plan - 12/22/2004
The non-retirement plan: consider tapping into older workers.
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What's your ideal employee? An experienced professional who shows up on time every day and has commitment, integrity, and, yes, even gratitude for being in the workplace? These workers aren ...
Consider...
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Unemployment rate drops slightly to 5.7%; Payrolls barely rise but temp help adds 30,000 - 1/09/2004
The U.S. job market disappointed general economy-watchers again in December, with only 1,000 workers added and downward revisions for the moderate employment increases in October and November.
... for production workers (seasonally adjusted) rose 3. to $15.50; over the l...
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Beige book is gray - 9/14/2003
personnel agency reported "brisk," broad-based hiring of temps in December.
Relative to seasonal norms, hiring or planned hiring of temporary service workers was reported to be slow, flat, or down
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