Professional Staffing Group, a Massachusetts talent solutions firm specializing in the placement of health care and clinical, call center, finance, and accounting and early career administrative roles, has announced a new name and brand identity. The company now is officially known as ProPivotal…
Learn From Your Peers During ASA Virtual Networking Calls Starting Today
As your staffing firm faces evolving challenges and tries to answer unexpected questions, are you dealing with questions that are specific to your sector of the staffing industry? Get insight from industry peers during a peer networking call where you can discuss top-of-mind challenges and devise solutions. Calls are facilitated by volunteers from ASA (participants…
Breaking News About Staffing World 2023
This morning, ASA announced three major updates about Staffing World®, the ASA annual convention and expo, which takes place Oct. 3–5 in Charlotte, NC. Here’s what you need to know to start planning your experience for yourself and your team. Session descriptions are now live online. Check out the descriptions for more than 30 sessions…
The Latest From Your Colleagues on ASA Central
ASA Central—the dynamic online community just for staffing professionals—is home to more than 27,000 staffing professional profiles and countless ongoing industry conversations. This week, take a look at your colleagues’ discussions and some of the blogs they’ve posted on ASA Central: Calculating the right number of recruiters Measuring employee retention data Standard operating procedures for…
New Staffing Professionals Starting? Onboarding Courses Available on ASA Learn
Looking to enhance your new hire process and your team’s knowledge of the staffing industry? Need to train new hires or offer refresher courses to seasoned team members? ASA has developed a program of onboarding courses specifically designed for staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions professionals. You can purchase and assign courses to your team and…
U.S. Department of Labor Invites Businesses, Workers to Share Best Workplace Safety, Health Practices
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced an upcoming listening session with business owners, employers, and workers to collect input on how organizations make safety and health a core value in their workplaces. Led by the department’s U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the…
BLS: Staffing Employment Edged Up in May
Temporary help employment rose 0.3% (7,700 jobs) from April to May, 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 and…
Cal/OSHA Reminds Employers to Protect Workers From Heat Illness During High Temperatures
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (called Cal/OSHA) is reminding all employers to protect workers from heat illness as high temperatures are forecast in the next few days. When working in these hotter conditions for the first time this year, workers must be closely observed…
Worries About Inflation, Recession Drag Down Economic Outlook
Last quarter’s modest lift in business executives’ view of the U.S. economy proved short-lived, with a majority now expressing pessimism about the next 12 months, according to the second-quarter AICPA & CIMA Economic Outlook Survey, which included 433 qualified responses from chief executive…
Natural Hairstyle Discrimination Protections Passed in Kentucky and Beyond
Lexington, KY, on May 12 became the fourth city in the state to protect hairstyles under its local antidiscrimination ordinances. The Lexington CROWN Act (Ordinance No. 49-2023), an acronym for “Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair,” expands the definitions of race, religion, and…
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