The joint responsibilities of staffing agencies and host employers to protect temporary workers from safety and health hazards on the job are assembled in a new guidance. Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health David Michaels made the announcement Aug. 25, 2014, at the Voluntary Protection Programs Participants’ Association annual conference in National Harbor,…

Advance Group continues to grow with the appointment of Bob Lucas to the role of SVP – Business Development. Lucas comes to Advance with over 25 years of experience within the staffing industry and his addition to the team is part of Advance’s ongoing commitment to help entrepreneurial staffing firms grow. Lucas’ extensive background includes…

Paragon Financial Group, Inc. is seeing the warning signs of a merchant cash advance market bubble. Small business bank loans have dried up and are more difficult to obtain since the Great Recession of 2008. Merchant cash advance (MCA) lenders have stepped in to fill the demand and are entering the market place at a…

Corra Group is providing a wide range of drug collection sites in order to accommodate the compliance needs of those in the healthcare industry. As the healthcare industry continues as one of the strongest growth sectors in American Industry, there is a greater need for for such personnel as nurse practitioners, and people working in home…

In the spring of 2011 an ambitious mid-west based staffing agency knew they needed to change how they managed their finances. By the time they contacted Universal Funding they had tapped out a million dollar bank line and now owed payments. Simultaneously they were delinquent for over one hundred thousand dollars in back taxes for…

More than a million new business establishments formed in the U.S. last year, according to federal government data, and history suggests that roughly half will likely go under within five years. If you make your money serving small businesses, this can’t be a very heartening figure. On the other hand, if you flip the equation…

Aequor Technologies, a US-based, IT Consulting and Staff Augmentation Firm, today announced the acquisition of Sound Advice’s Life Sciences Staff Augmentation Practice of Scarsdale, New York. Aequor Technologies, headquartered in New Jersey, is committed to growth in the Life Sciences marketplace by developing, establishing, and acquiring effective and creative consulting and staffing solutions firms that are established…

Small businesses with primarily 1-10 employees, often referred to as micro businesses, saw a month-over-month increase in hiring (0.1 percent) for the first time in 2014, according to the August 2014 SurePayroll Small Business Scorecard®. SurePayroll Inc. is a leader in providing online payroll to small businesses nationwide since 2000. The increase, though seemingly small, is…

Paychex, Inc. has been named to Selling Power magazine’s “50 Best Companies to Sell For” list for 2014. Paychex, a leading provider of payroll, human resource, and benefits outsourcing solutions for America’s small- and medium-sized businesses, came in at number 12 on the list, up from the number 14 spot last year. Paychex senior vice president of…