Fastest-Growing US Staffing Firms List online; median CAGR 26.9%

This year, 94 companies made Staffing Industry Analysts’ list of Fastest-Growing US Staffing Firms with a median compound average revenue growth rate of 26.9% between 2013 and 2017.

For the 10 fastest-growing firms on the list, the CAGR was 97.8%.

Here are the 10 fastest-growing staffing firms with name,...

More employers offering health insurance

The overall percentage of private-sector employers offering health benefits increased in 2017 for the first time since 2008, according to research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a nonprofit research group based in Washington, DC. The research found increases across all sizes of plans.

Between...

Senior living organizations increase use of temp agencies

More than half of senior living organizations, 62%, worked with temp agencies to fill direct-care staff vacancies in 2017, with roughly a quarter of providers using agencies often or always, according to the the Ziegler CFO HotlineSM survey. This is up from the prior year’s survey, when 53% reported...

Senator introduces amendment for contingent workforce benefit concepts (JD Supra)

US Sen. Mark Warner, D-VA, last week introduced an amendment to the pending congressional appropriations package that would establish a $20 million grant program through the Department of Labor for some experimentation with the concept of healthcare, retirement and other portable benefits for the contingent...

Gradual interest rate hikes likely: Federal Reserve Chairman Powell (Bloomberg)

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said the strength of the US economic expansion justifies gradually raising interest rates, paving the way for a hike in September and possibly another this year, Bloomberg reported. “There is good reason to expect that this strong performance will continue,”...

Top business leaders express “serious concern” about immigration policy in letter to Homeland Security

The Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs, sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Thursday expressing “serious concern” about changes in immigration policy. The CEOs said the policy changes are causing “considerable anxiety for many thousands of our employees”...

Hedge fund offers DHI buyout, threatens proxy battle

Hedge fund TCS Capital Management LLC offered to buy DHI Group Inc. (NYSE: DHX), which operates Dice.com and other job boards, for $2.50 per share in cash, according to a letter filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The purchase price represents approximately five times 2018 estimated...

Kelly Services US general manager steps down

Kelly Services Inc. (NASD: KELYA) reported in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that Steven Armstrong, its senior VP and general manager of US operations, separated as an officer and employee on Aug. 21.

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Typos and grammar mistakes top list of resume mistakes: CareerBuilders

The pressure to make a good first impression quickly is high, as 39% of hiring managers said they spend less than a minute looking at a résumé and 23% spend less than 30 seconds, according to a new survey by CareerBuilder.

Hiring managers identified the seven most common resume mistakes job seekers...

Southern California staffing firm execs charged with tax and workers’ comp fraud, defendants claim insurer ‘double-dipping’

The Orange County District Attorney’s Office charged three executives from two Southern California staffing companies with tax and workers’ compensation fraud for misrepresenting the employee status of 47 injured workers. However, the defendants claim they are unjustly accused.

The charges — filed...