Kelly expands Asia Pacific JV with Temp Holdings

Kelly Services Inc. (NASD: KELYA) and Japan-based staffing giant Temp Holdings Co. Ltd. expanded their existing joint venture to include all of Asia Pacific. The firms expects the new joint venture will be the largest workforce solutions company in the Asia Pacific region.

Temp Holdings is the second-largest...

Resources Connection revenue flat, CFO to retire

Revenue at Resources Connection Inc. (NASD: RECN) stayed flat year over year in its fiscal third quarter ended Feb. 27. The Irvine Calif.-based company also announced the retirement of Executive VP and CFO Nathan W. Franke. 

Third-quarter revenue remained at $146.8 million, slightly below the company’s...

TSR revenue up 6%, net loss narrows

TSR Inc. (NASD: TSRI), a Hauppauge, NY-based supplier of IT staffing, reported revenue rose 6.1% to $15.1 million in its fiscal third quarter ended Feb. 29. The revenue increase resulted primarily from an increase in the average daily rate charged as the company placed more consultants in higher level...

H-1B visa cap reached within first week on Thursday

The cap for H-1B visas for highly skilled temporary foreign workers for the upcoming federal fiscal year was again reached within a week, US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Thursday.

The visas are capped at 65,000 per year, plus another 20,000 for holders of advanced degrees, for a total...

IT jobs rise 0.2% in March, growth rate steady

The number of IT jobs in the US edged up 0.2% in March from February to almost 5.1 million, reported TechServe Alliance, an association of IT and engineering staffing companies. Year over year, IT employment in the US rose by 3.9% in March.

“While I would not characterize Q1 numbers as robust, IT employment...

Canada gains 40,600 jobs in March, full-time jobs fuel growth

Canada gained 40,600 jobs in March following three months of little change, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by Statistics Canada.

The number of full-time jobs rose by 35,300 in March and part-time jobs rose by 5,300.

Compared to the same month a year ago, Canada was up by 129,600...

Massachusetts staffing firm owner pleads guilty to tax evasion

The owner of a Massachusetts staffing firm pleaded guilty Thursday to income tax evasion and failure to withhold and pay employment taxes, according to the Department of Justice US Attorney’s Office.

Rossy Noriega, 50, the owner of New Diamond Work Inc., a temporary employment agency based in Fall...

People: Lannick, Korn Ferry, Day & Zimmermann, Alder Koten and more

Lannick, a finance and accounting professional staffing firm serving the Greater Toronto Area, appointed William J. Grubbs as a member of its advisory board. Grubbs is president and CEO of Cross Country Healthcare Inc. (NASD: CCRN) and included among The Staffing 100 list of most influential people in...

TriNet acquires immigration HR services provider

TriNet Group Inc. (NYSE: TNET), the fourth-largest US professional employer organization, acquired assets from Teleborder Inc., a provider of immigration HR services for employers.

The transaction closed in the first quarter and terms were not disclosed.

The acquisition bolsters TriNet’s capabilities...

Lyft, Handy execs named to inaugural Digital Economy Board of Advisors

US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker appointed two human cloud company executives to the US Commerce Department’s new Digital Economy Board of Advisors: Lyft co-founder and President John Zimmer and Handy co-founder and CEO Oisin Hanrahan.

The Board of Advisors — which includes 17 private-sector leaders...