Hire Dynamics acquires Nashville-based commercial staffing provider

Hire Dynamics, an Atlanta-based commercial staffing provider, acquired Nashville, Tenn.-based Search Group Solutions, effective Oct. 17. The acquisition will bring 20 additional clients and increased reach to Hire Dynamics. 

Search Group Solutions has capabilities in contact center and administrative...

Volt completes sale of quality assurance testing business for $66 million

Volt Information Sciences Inc. (NYSE MKT: VISI) completed the sale of its quality assurance testing business, known as VMC, to Keywords International Ltd., a technical services provider to the global video games industry. Volt announced the $66.4 million cash deal last week, noting the sale helps it...

Department of Labor is filing appeal in order to rewrite overtime rule (The Hill)

The US Department of Labor will appeal a judge’s ruling against an Obama-era overtime rule that would have extended overtime pay to 4 million Americans in order for it to rewrite the rule, The Hill reported.
The judge permanently shot down the rule in a decision earlier this year. The rule targeted...

Uber hires PepsiCo exec as chief legal officer (Fortune)

Fortune reported human cloud, ride-sharing firm Uber hired Tony West as its new chief legal officer to guide the company through its many legal quandaries, filling one of the crucial vacancies in its leadership. West will join Uber next month from PepsiCo, where as general counsel he led a team of lawyers...

Heidrick net revenue up 11% in constant currency; exec search revenue up 13%

Third-quarter net revenue rose 10.6% in constant currency at Heidrick & Struggles International Inc. (NASD: HSII), driven by strong year-over-year growth in executive search. Net revenue exceeded the high end of the company’s guidance of $158 million at the Chicago-based executive search, leadership...

US gross domestic product posts 3% growth in Q3

US real gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.0% in the third quarter, according to the “advance” estimate of GDP growth released today by the US Commerce Department. In the first quarter, real GDP advanced 3.1%.

This is the first time the economy has grown at or above a 3% annual rate...

Average holiday bonus increasing to $1,797 this year but fewer offered, Accounting Principals survey finds

While bonuses are rising in value by 66% this year, they overall are becoming more scarce, according to a survey released by Jacksonville Fla.-based Accounting Principals.

The average holiday bonus this year is expected to be $1,797, up from $1,081 in 2016 and $858 in 2015. However, 63% of HR and hiring...

People: Hays, TriNet, PrincetonOne, Belcan, PrideStaff, Vaco and more

Hays Talent Solutions appointed Kimball Norup as the new senior VP, head of growth, for Hays Talent Solutions Americas, the outsourced resourcing division of the specialist recruitment agency. He will work with the firm’s leadership to build the strategic plan for the expansion of Hays Talent Solutions...

Former director at legal search firm out after sexual harassment complaint (New York Law Journal)

In a complaint filed Wednesday, a managing director in national legal recruiting firm Wegman Partners’ New York office alleges she was “subjected to an astounding barrage of groping and sexually explicit and derogatory comments, texts, emails, and signs by her boss,” Scott Legg, who led Wegman’s...

Waste industry sees opportunities to reverse Browning-Ferris joint employer standard (Waste Dive)

The waste industry is cautiously optimistic about multiple openings in the near future to reverse a controversial joint employer standard ruling by the National Labor Relations Board in 2015 on Browning-Ferris Industries in California, Waste Dive reports. Meanwhile, supporters of the ruling are fearful...