The AFL-CIO has recently undertaken a plan to pass legislation at the state level that would require employers to spend pre-set percentages of their payrolls on health care benefits or, barring that, to help fund state Medicaid costs. The union plans to introduce the Fair Share Health Care Fund Act in a total of 32 […]

The twelve Federal Reserve districts have reported continued economic expansion at the end of 2005, with New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis and Kansas City reporting moderate or modest growth. More solid growth was reported by the six other districts – they are San Francisco, Richmond, Atlanta, Dallas, Cleveland and Boston.
Moderate employment increases were […]

The U.S. Department of Labor has recently issued final regulations regarding the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act of 1994, offering definitive guidance on applications of the act without adding to or modifying the original act. The new regulations will take effect on January 18, 2006 and dictate how returning service members are to be […]

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its employment projections report for 2004-2014 and concludes that the employment services industry is expected to add 1.6 million jobs over the ten year study period, more than any other industry.
The BLS has further predicted an annual growth rate of 3.8% for the employment services industry, good […]

As celebrants around the world rung in the New Year almost two weeks ago, staffing firms had reason to celebrate as well. Staffing firm job growth grew 6.8% over the course of 2005, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Firms staffing temporary employees added over 9,000 jobs in December alone, […]

A long list of proposed legislation introduced in 2005 that would have proven overly burdensome to the staffing industry has been defeated by local- and national-level lobbying efforts, much to the relief of staffing agencies throughout the nation. The defeated legislation focused primarily on three main areas that affect staffing firms, including taxes, temporary labor […]

A Texas appeals court has recently found in favor of a staffing firm employee who had been assigned to a state hospital as its CEO and administrator, indicating that he was entitled to immunity from liability for acts that fell within the scope of his employment at the hospital and that were performed in good […]