The Employment Cost Index rose by 0.8% in Q1 2017, showing the largest quarterly increase since the end of 2007. Wages and salaries increased by 0.8%, and benefits rose 0.7%.
The pace of these modest increases should not have...
The results are in! Statisticians, with a median annual salary of approximately $80k, rank #1 on CareerCast’s list of best and worst jobs for 2017. The report ranks 200 jobs across sectors and scores them based on growth outlook,...
The 4-week average staffing index ending on April 16 was up to 93.43, up 0.84% from the same week last year, though Easter caused a 0.57% dip in contract and temporary employment. Staffing employment was up 1.82% year-to-year.
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Millennials will refuse or resign from jobs if company values do not match their own, particularly on the issue of sustainability, finds a new study by Rubbermaid and Lightspeed.
Here are some key points:
About 10% of Millennials would...
The Department of Labor has been given another extension to file its overtime rule brief to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, this time through June 30. Last fall, the DOL was barred by 21 states from implementing...
About 85% of employees say their company-provided health insurance is either “very important” or “extremely important,” according to a report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
Here are some of the key findings:
Benefits satisfaction and job satisfaction show...
Temporary employment is up 3.8% from March of last year. From February to March of this year it increased 0.4%. Additionally, the average monthly staffing job growth for Q1 2017 was 3.5%, 2.5 times 2016’s monthly average for the...
Only 13,500 healthcare jobs were added to the market in March, which is less than half of the 31,400 jobs created in February, according to Modern Healthcare. Hospital jobs made up 8,700 of the positions added in March.
In 2016,...
Only 98,000 jobs were added to the market in March, compared to the expected 180,000. The unemployment rate, however, hit 4.5%, the lowest since 2007.
Here are some other highlighted labor stats for March:
Wages increased by 0.2%.
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Platform for Global Enterprise Staffing and Recruiting Executives Showcases Cutting-Edge Industry Thought Leadership, Research, Trends, and Opinions
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bullhorn, the cloud computing company that helps staffing and recruiting organizations transform their businesses, announced today the launch of the Recruitment Innovation...
