U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has now randomly selected a sufficient number of registrations for unique beneficiaries as needed to reach the H-1B regular cap from the remaining properly submitted fiscal year 2025 registrations. USCIS …
More States Enact Pay Transparency Laws
The list of states enacting and expanding pay transparency requirements now includes Minnesota, Vermont, and Maryland. Minnesota’s law goes into effect Jan. 1, 2025, requiring employers with 30 or more employees in the state to include a starting salary range or fixed pay rate in job postings….
Get Your Staffing Benchmarks and Projections—ASA Quarterly Staffing Employment and Sales Survey Closes This Month
The association’s quarterly Staffing Employment and Sales Survey for the second quarter of 2024 is now open; members recently received a survey link in their email. Staffing companies that complete the brief survey by Aug. 23 receive an exclusive report on the results, which includes gross margin and sector-level data. Register to take the survey,…
Free ASA Webinar Tomorrow—Understanding New Overtime Rules
Don’t miss tomorrow’s ASA webinar “Navigating New Overtime Rules: Key Changes and Legal Challenges for Staffing Employers,” 2–3 p.m. Eastern time. A new regulation published by the U.S. Department of Labor significantly increases the level of compensation needed to make a worker exempt from federal overtime provisions. Lawsuits were filed to challenge the new rule—one…
ISM: Services Activity Expanded in July
Economic activity in the services sector expanded in July, a trend that has been interrupted only three times—though twice in the last four months—since early in the coronavirus pandemic, say the nation’s purchasing and supply executives in the latest Services ISM Report On Business. The Services…
2024 VETS-4212 Filing Platform Opened on Aug. 1
The 2024 VETS-4212 reporting platform opened on Aug. 1. Unlike the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which regularly posts updates to its EEO-1 filing page and sends numerous emails to filers, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Veterans’ Employment and Training Service does not send emails…
Construction Firms Add 25,000 Jobs in July
Construction employment in July totaled 8,260,000, seasonally adjusted, an increase of 25,000 from June, according to an analysis of government data by the Associated General Contractors of America. The sector has added 239,000 jobs or 3.0% during the past 12 months, nearly double the 1.6%…
GAO Issues Report on Hospital Use of Agency Nurses During Pandemic
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has published a report on hospital use of nurses supplied by nurse staffing agencies during the Covid-19 pandemic. The 43-page report was prepared per the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act in which Congress authorized GAO to report on its pandemic-related oversight efforts, including changes in hospitals’ use of…
BLS: Staffing Employment Declined in July
Temporary help employment declined 0.3% (-8,700 jobs) from June to July, according to seasonally adjusted data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Note: initial BLS estimates on seasonally adjusted temporary help services employment data tend to be materially revised monthly…
ZipRecruiter Q2 2024 New Hires Survey
About half (58%) of workers increased their pay with a job switch in the second quarter, down from 70% previously, according to ZipRecruiter’s latest new hires survey. The ZipRecruiter Survey of New Hires is based on a sample of more than 1,500 U.S. adults who are currently employed, and who began…
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