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U.S. employers say they are more optimistic about hiring across all industries and geographies, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey released by ManpowerGroup.

Small-business employment grew by .25 percent during Febraury after a 2.75 decrease in January, according to the CBIZ Small Business Employment Index, which measures hiring trends among companies with 300 or fewer employees.

As the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced U.S. employers added more than 227,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate remained steady at 8.3 percent, the U.S. labor market could be gaining steam, according to staffing company Express Employment Professionals.

Questions about cost and access to birth control have been swirling for weeks now, intensifying after a Georgetown University law school student testified before congressional Democrats in support of a new federal policy to pay for contraception that she said can add up to $1,000 a year, not covered by...

When comparing March 2012 to March 2011, service-sector hiring is expected to fall by a net of 10.3 points while manufacturing-sector hiring is projected to rise by a net of 4.8 points, according to a new report from the Society for Human Resource Management that surveyed 500 service-sector companies and...

Payroll processing company Automatic Data Processing Inc. said Thursday that it will buy a division of SHPS Inc., an employee benefits administration company.