Netherlands – Recruiters approach women less than men amid staffing shortages (NL Times)

Recruiters in the Netherlands approach women much less often than they do men when they look for staff, even with the tightness in the labour market and staff shortages in multiple sectors, reports the NL Times citing a study from Financieele Dagblad and the Intelligence Group. The study kept track...

Netherlands – Brunel International Q3 revenue growth driven by Rest of World

Brunel (BRNL: NA), the Netherlands-based global energy staffing firm grew revenue by 9% on a like-for-like basis to €259.7 million in the third quarter of 2019 compared to the prior-year quarter.

Revenue grew strongly in the Middle East & India and Rest of World regions.

Last week Brunel published...

UK – A third of companies who engage non-permanent contractors are unaware of upcoming IR35 reforms

A third of private sector organisations in the UK who regularly engage non-permanent contractors, including temporary workers, are unaware of the reforms to IR35 legislation due to come into effect in April 2020, according to new research from Hays.

The survey found that 24% of those private sector employers...

Poland – Number of temporary employees down 19% in Q3

The number of temporary employees in Poland during the third quarter of 2019 decreased by 19% compared to the same period of the previous year, according to data from Polskie Forum HR, the Polish Human Resources Forum.

Figures from the Forum showed that its member companies employed over 84,000 temporary...

People – ManpowerGroup, HMRC, Alexander Mann Solutions

ManpowerGroup has announced the appointment of Harld Peters as Regional President, Northern Europe effective January 1, 2020. Peters will oversee all of ManpowerGroup's brands and offerings across the region – Manpower, Experis, Right Management and ManpowerGroup Solutions, and will report to Chairman...

UK – NHS Digital hit by £4.3 million tax bill after ‘faulty’ use of CEST tool

NHS Digital, the national information and technology partner to the health and care system in the UK, is facing a tax bill of £4.3 million after HMRC challenged a number of IR35 status assessments conducted using HMRC’s Check Employment Status for Tax (CEST) tool.

According to ContractorUK, NHS Digital...

France – Assystem revenue rises, reports growth in staffing division

Assystem SA, a France-based engineering and consultancy company, reported consolidated revenue growth of 12.4% to €363 million for the first nine months of 2019. In constant currency, revenue was up 1.1%.

Revenue for the Staffing division amounted to €33.5 million for the first nine months of 2019,...

Belgium – Temporary agency workers’ hours down in September: Federgon

The number of hours worked by temporary agency workers in Belgium in September 2019 fell by 6.67% when compared to the previous year, according to Federgon, the Belgian Federation of Staffing Agencies.

The decrease was due to the number of hours worked by temporary agency workers in the blue-collar sector...

Europe – EU28 unemployment rate falls in September

The euro area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate stood at 7.5% in September 2019, down from 8.0% in September 2018, while the EU28 unemployment rate was 6.3% in September 2019, down from 6.7% in September 2018, according to data from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

September’s...

Sweden – Firm aims to help online gig workers rate platforms and more (Staffing Industry Review)

AppJobs.com aims to help online workers navigate the gig economy/human cloud landscape by letting them rate human cloud platforms, share tips, find opportunities and more. Last month, the Stockholm, Sweden-based company got the spotlight at Staffing Industry Analysts’ Collaboration in the Gig Economy...