National Staffing Employee Week, Sept. 16-22!

Posted: Mon, Sep 16th, 2013 7:33:49 am

National Staffing Employee Week

BONNEY Staffing Center is proud to join staffing companies across the country in celebrating National Staffing Employee Week, September 16–22!  Established by the American Staffing Association, National Staffing Employee Week pays tribute to the millions of Americans who are employed by staffing firms nationally.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that temporary and contract workers make up one of the fastest-growing segments of the work force. Furthermore, the American Staffing Association estimates that 11.5 million temporary and contract employees were hired by U.S. staffing firms during 2012.

BONNEY is proud to honor all of its field employees during this special week.  Each branch selects their 'Staffing Employee of the Year' and honors them with a Certificate of Appreciation as well as a monetary prize.  We appreciate all the hard work and dedication set forth by our employees, and we strive to match their exemplary performance within our own organization each and every day. 

BONNEY Staffing's Employee of the Year 2013 Award Winners

Augusta: Stanley Searles

Bangor: Bonnie Cochrane

Biddeford: Patricia Cote

Lewiston: Larry Turbide

Portland: Randall Wise

Portsmouth: Rebekah Thompson

Topsham: Carol Bisson

Windham: Nikolay Popov

Congratulations and thank you to all!

Best Places to Work in Maine 2013

Posted: Tue, Sep 10th, 2013 10:31:02 am

For the second year in a row, BONNEY Staffing Center has been chosen as one of the Best Places To Work in Maine! We are honored and proud to be one of the 60 Maine companies to win this award in 2013! Best Places to Work in Maine is a project of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM), Maine State Council, and Best Companies Group and recognizes companies that have created outstanding workplace environments.

Partners endorsing this award include: the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, the Maine Department of Labor, Best Companies Group, Maine HR Convention, the Maine Department of Economics and Community Development, Bernstein Shur and Mainebiz.

This statewide survey and awards program was designed to identify, recognize and honor the best places of employment in Maine, which benefit the state's economy, its workforce and businesses! The 2013 winners list is made up of companies in two categories: 47 Small/Medium companies (15-249 U.S. employees) and 13 Large companies (250+ U.S. employees).

Companies from across the state entered a two-part process, administered by Best Companies Group, to determine the Best Places to Work in Maine. The first part consisted of evaluating each nominated company's workplace policies, practices and demographics. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure the employee experience. The combined score determined the top companies and final rankings. BONNEY Staffing will be recognized and honored at the Best Places to Work in Maine 2013 Awards ceremony on October 10th and will be profiled in a special publication by Mainebiz!

Read the Maine SHRM press release...

Staffing Industry Continues Job Gains in 2013

Moderate Staffing Job Gains in Second Quarter of 2013

New Data From the ASA Quarterly Employment and Sales Survey

U.S. staffing companies employed an average of 2.96 million temporary and contract workers per day in the second quarter of 2013, up 1.8% from the same period last year, according to data released today by the American Staffing Association. Although the April through June period marked 14 consecutive quarters of year-to-year staffing payroll additions since the recession ended in 2009, job growth has been more muted in the last few quarters.

"The staffing industry is proud of the role that it is playing in continuing to create employment opportunities even in the face of a slowly growing economy," says Richard Wahlquist, American Staffing Association president and chief executive officer.

In a quarter-to-quarter comparison, staffing firms added nearly 105,000 workers (up 3.7%) from first quarter to second quarter of this year—close to the 10-year average of 3.9% observed for the same period.

Temporary and contract staffing sales totaled $26.94 billion in the second quarter of 2013, 2.4% higher than in the same period in 2012. Second quarter sales were $1.06 billion dollars higher than in the first quarter of 2013, up 4.1%.

For more information on how survey was conducted...