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UK — Court ruling on forced retirement age of 65 expected today
25 September 2009'Age Concern' and 'Help the Aged' have challenged the default retirement age rules, which enable companies and public sector employers to set a mandatory age at which staff must give up their jobs even if they are able and willing to continue working. 25,000 workers are affected each year, the Guardian...
UK — Profits double at private equity backed recruitment firm
25 September 2009Air Energi, the Manchester-based recruitment firm where Zeus Private Equity has a stake, doubled pre-tax profits to 4.2 million Pounds last year.
Newly filed accounts for the year to 31 December 2008, also show that turnover rose 35% to 113.7 million Pounds.
Directors of the company, which supplies...
Spain — Huge rise in unemployment among the highly employable
24 September 2009According to a recent report published by the Association of Large Temporary Employment Agencies (Agett) and the CEPREDE Institute of the Autonomous University of Madrid more than 800,000 highly employable job seekers cannot find work.
Highly employable job seekers are defined as those who have not...
Switzerland — Adecco extends its Group Executive Committee
24 September 2009The Adecco Group Executive Committee will be extended as of 1 October 2009. With this move, Adecco's markets will be represented in the Executive Committee.
The company remains fully committed to its proactive cost-focused and disciplined pricing approach, while trying optimise the service delivery...
France — DLSI still profitable in spite of difficult market conditions
24 September 2009DLSI S.A. (ALDSL:PAR), the French staffing agency group reports interim results for the first six months of the year ending 30 June 2009.
Revenues were down by 22.3% from 72 million Euro in the first six months of 2008 to 56 million Euro in the same period of 2009. Operating profits were down from 2.5...
UK — Pinnacle Staffing Group make a -425,000 Pounds pre-tax loss
24 September 2009Revenues were down to 19.3 million Pounds from 19.9 million Pounds in 2008. Pre-tax Loss before credit for negative goodwill was down to -425,000 Pounds from a Pre-tax Loss of -6.2 million Pounds in 2008, Pinnacle Staffing Group plc (PCL:LSE), the specialist temporary healthcare recruitment group announced...
France — Zero social charges for small companies probably to be prolonged
24 September 2009Christine Lagarde, Minister for the Economy said on 'France Inter' radio yesterday she "sincerely hopes that zero social charges for very small companies will continue until 30 June 2010."
The French government decided last year that from 4 December 2008 so-called 'very small companies' with less than...
UK — Recruitment firms shut down for conning the NHS
24 September 2009Seven recruitment companies have been wound up in the High Court following an investigation by the Government’s Companies Investigation Branch (CIB), the Government Monitor reports.
The companies, apparently controlled by the same two directors, were engaged in ‘cold calling’ organisations...
Ireland — 79% of job seekers turn to recruitment agencies
24 September 2009A recent survey carried out among 1,300 active job seekers in Ireland reveals that more traditional forms of recruitment have returned to prominence in these challenging economic times.
The survey has found that recruitment companies are the first point of contact for 79% of job seekers in Ireland....
Germany — New interactive map on temporary employment penetration
23 September 2009The Institute for Economic and Social Sciences (WSI) of the Hans-Boeckler-Foundation, has just published a detailed map of temporary employment penetration in 429 cities and regions of the country.
The map shows that temporary employment penetration varies widely. Some rural areas have almost no temporary...