Staffing provider Belcan acquires CDI’s aerospace and industrial equipment business unit

Engineering consulting and staffing provider Belcan LLC acquired the aerospace and industrial equipment business unit of CDI Corp., a Philadelphia-based provider of IT and engineering staffing. The deal includes certain related aerospace staffing contracts.

The transaction closed Dec. 11; terms were not...

EmployBridge co-founder and CFO Shawn Poole to retire

EmployBridge co-founder, executive VP and CFO Shawn Poole will retire from his role at the Atlanta-based industrial staffing firm on Jan. 31, the company announced yesterday. He will remain active with EmployBridge, assisting with the transition of his duties and as a strategic advisor to CEO Tom Bickes...

MBO Partners names two execs as senior VP and CFO

MBO Partners, a provider of independent contractor engagement solutions, named Linda Mann as a senior VP and Chris Mack as CFO. Both appointments took effect in early November.

Mann will lead a newly-formed business unit targeting MBO’s direct-to-talent offerings and expand its enterprise direct sourcing...

Jury convicts Tennessee staffing firm exec on tax charges; money used for cars and mortgage payments

A federal jury in Memphis convicted staffing executive Mark Stinson on Dec. 8 of tax charges, the US Department of Justice reported. Stinson and his wife, Jayton Stinson, operated a staffing company in Memphis, but failed to pay $2.8 million in withholdings and other employment taxes. Jayton Stinson...

Word of the month: Float pool

“Float pool,” is defined by this year’s edition of Staffing Industry Analysts’ online Lexicon of workforce solutions ecosystem terms as pool of workers most commonly used in the healthcare sector for supplemental staffing of clinical nursing positions — sometimes referred to as a nurse bank....

Majority of supply execs say hiring difficult, but wages not up

A majority of manufacturing and nonmanufacturing purchasing executives in the US reported having difficulty hiring workers to fill open positions in the last six months, but a majority also said they didn’t raise wages for new hires, according to a report out today by the Institute for Supply Management....

ALKU acquires healthcare IT services firm Holland Square Group

Staffing firm ALKU acquired Holland Square Group, a healthcare IT consulting services provider based in Franklin, Tenn.

Holland Square ranked No. 55 on this year’s list of fastest-growing staffing firms with revenue of $26.4 million in 2016. The Nashville, Tenn.-based firm provides IT consulting and...

Noor announces acquisition of Texas-based home healthcare firm

Habib Noor, founder of Noor Inc., acquired Texas-based Restorative Health Care, a home healthcare provider with four offices and more than 300 field clinicians. Restorative Health Care provides nursing and therapy services, including RNs and occupational, physical and speech therapy services for...

Employment Trends Index falls in November after large increase in October

The Conference Board’s US Employment Trends Index fell in November after a sharp increase in October.

“The decline in the Employment Trends Index in November comes after one of the largest monthly increases ever last month,” said Gad Levanon, chief economist, North America, at The Conference Board....

Job openings fall by 181,000 in October

The number of US job openings fell by 181,000 in October from the prior month to 6.0 million, according to seasonally adjusted numbers released today by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, the number of hires rose 4.4%.

Job openings have been at or near record high levels since June.

The job openings...