Keith departs CoreStaff a year after buyout

FORT COLLINS — Richard Keith and CoreStaff Inc. have parted ways one year after the temporary-employment agency purchased Richard Keith Enterprises, a company operating as AppleOne Employment Service of Colorado, and Keith assumed the title of president and CEO of CoreStaff’s national expansion group.

The decision to end the relationship was mutually agreed upon by Keith and CoreStaff, said an executive at CoreStaff Acquisition Sub #5 Inc., the Colorado-based subsidiary of CoreStaff Inc. of Houston.

Reasons for the departure were not disclosed.

CoreStaff is embroiled in a lawsuit with AppleOne of Glendale, Calif., which alleges that when CoreStaff purchased Richard Keith Enterprises,…