Starting a temp agency is something you can do yourself from your home. Because your workers are at your clients' locations, there's no need to invest in an office – at least while you're starting out ...

Sometimes, looking for a job or finding the right employee is more complicated than looking at the want ads or placing an online job ad. Temporary work agencies provide a service for both job seekers ...

The Labor Department is dropping two big sets of data this week. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey for November will come out Wednesday, and the jobs report for December will be out Friday.

The September employment report comes out Friday, and it’s likely to show a job market that remains pretty resilient, even if it is cooling down a bit. Most industries are still adding jobs, just at a ...

The new year has brought greater-than-expected job growth. This is particularly promising for temporary workers—the folks who are the first out the door during tough economic times—and the companies ...

CHICAGO --MVP Staffing is a job placement agency that operates 60 offices in 38 states. Its vehicles carry thousands of mostly temporary workers to client companies every day. It now stands accused of ...

Temporary workers were hit with 49,000 job losses in June, more than any other industry, and a possible sign the labor market is poised to cool significantly in the months ahead. The decline, ...

Two men walk into a temporary staffing agency near O’Hare International Airport to inquire about a job. They are both in their 50s, with similar work histories. One is Black, the other Latino. The ...

Over the two decades that Angela Rand has, on and off, found employment through temporary hiring agencies in the Chicago region, she’s occasionally received treatment that she terms “odd.” There was ...