While the national unemployment rate dropped slightly in March, the same was generally true throughout the nation’s individual regions. Overall, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 33 states posted decreases in their respective unemployment rates, nine showed increases and eight others showed no change.
The largest employment increases were in Florida, which gained 24,500 […]

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services have just announced that the cap on H-2B visas has been reached for 2006, a total of 33,000 visas for the second half of the year.
The H-2B visa program permits employers to hire foreign workers to fill one-time, peak-load, intermittent or seasonal positions when no available workers are available from […]

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Seeking to narrow the disparity between executive salaries and those of its constituents, the AFL-CIO released information recently about the most lucrative executive retirement deals in the country. “As corporate America is slashing workers’ pensions left and right, we think investors and the public should know about the huge pensions these CEOs are raking in,” […]

Online job ads, one of many indicators of the employment situation in the country, rose sharply in March, 2006, to 2.4 million ads. The Conference Board reported that the increase reached 414,600 new job ads, up 21% from February, 2006, which saw a small drop in job ads.
The increase is the largest ever since the […]

Harris Nesbitt, an investment and corporate banking firm headquartered in New York City, hosted its first “Healthcare Staffing Day” recently and the mood among attendees and investors was decidedly optimistic. Executives from the major healthcare staffing firms, as well as their major institutional investors, predicted strong performance in the healthcare staffing industry over the coming […]

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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that the unemployment rate dropped to 4.7% in March, 2006, down 0.1% from February, and that total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 211,000 during the month.
Employment in business and professional services rose by 52,000 jobs during the past month, with jobs being created almost equally across sub-sectors, […]

Federal employees would have more flexibility in their retirement options if a measure being pushed by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management is adopted. The proposal would be included in the 2007 U.S. budget and would remove a penalty on part-time employees of the federal government.
Currently, a 1986 law that was adopted to stem abuses […]

Confidence reigns supreme amongst U.S. recruiters, employees and CEOs, according to various surveys and indices. According to ExecuNet’s recruiter confidence index, a survey of 100 executive recruiters, 80% were “confident” or “very confident” that the executive employment market will improve during the next 6 months. That is up from 76% in February and an all […]