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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

Circa | June 10, 2022

Circa, a software solutions provider focused on increasing diversity in recruiting, announced an agreement to partner with ThisWay Global to maximize IBM’s App Connect Enterprise to help organizations enhance their diversity recruitment strategies. ThisWay is one of the 12 startups in North America to be selected in the Google Startup Accelerator Program, which took place in September 2021. We wouldn't have been able to participate in this cutting-ed...

HR STRATEGY

Timerack | September 14, 2021

Timerack and COATS Staffing Software today announced a long-term partnership designed to offer robust solutions that improve operations for staffing agencies. The two companies are providers of software solutions that address the staffing industry's biggest challenges, including time and attendance, payroll, employee tracking, and recruitment. With this new partnership, staffing agencies can eliminate manual, front-office assignment tracking and employee location processes—using automa...

HR Dive | April 17, 2020

The total cost to U.S. employee benefit plans caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could exceed $23 billion, according to a report published earlier this month by the Integrated Benefits Institute (IBI), a research nonprofit. That figure assumes a "high range" outcome in which the pandemic results in over 15 million U.S. cases, IBI said, and it includes estimates of costs due to short-term disability claims, potential sick leave wages and other benefits for workers absent due to COVID-19. T...

HR Dive | January 31, 2020

ITServe Alliance filed a lawsuit against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Jan. 26 "demanding $350 million in refunds to its member companies. A victory in this lawsuit will have USCIS write big checks to tech companies nationwide," the trade organization said in a tweet Jan. 27. The group alleges that USCIS illegally accumulated millions in border fees by charging a $4,000 fee for H-1B applications for professionals who extend their visa status while inside the U.S. Th...