France – DLSI Founder and Chairman passes away

French staffing firm DLSI announced that Raymond Doudot, founder of the DLSI Group and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of DLSI, passed away suddenly last week.

Raymond Doudot founded the company in 1992 and the company was listed on market in 2006.

Raymond’s son Thierry Doudot, Chairman of the Management...

France – DLSI Q3 revenue rises slightly

French staffing firm DLSI SA (ALDLS: PAR), reported revenue on Friday for the third quarter ended 30 September 2019 of €60.9 million, up 0.7% compared to €60.5 million during the same period last year.

The group also reported revenue of €172.2 million for the nine-month period, an increase of 1.2%...

France – Temporary employment down 6.7%: Prism’Emploi

The number of temporary workers in France fell by 6.7% year-over-year in September 2019, according to the latest Barometer report by Prism’Emploi, the French association of employment agencies.

The 6.7% fall followed a 4.3% year-over-year decrease in August 2019.

In September, temporary employment reported...

UK – EU agrees to 3-month extension for Brexit, government cancels Autumn Budget

EU leaders have agreed in principle to extend Brexit until 31 January 2020. At the same time, the UK government announced that its planned Autumn Budget for 6 November will no longer take place.

The UK was originally due to leave the EU on 31 October.

According to The BBC, EU Council President Donald Tusk...

UK – Outsourced London workers to strike on Halloween over pay and conditions (The Guardian)

London will be hit by a wave of Halloween strikes as hundreds of outsourced cleaners, park attendants and cafe workers fight for better pay and conditions, reports The Guardian. Trade union the United Voices of the World said it would be coordinating weeks of industrial action by outsourced workers who...

Germany – Consulting firm testing a 5-hour work day, small talk is banned and phone use is limited (Business Insider)

German consulting firm Rheingans Digital Enabler is allowing its employees to work five hours a day but workers could only check company emails twice a day, and meetings are typically 15 minutes or shorter. The company is also mandating that employees put their phone away and that they keep small talk...

Netherlands – Covebo Group takes over employment agency Eurojob

Netherlands-based Covebo Group, part of House of HR, announced that it has acquired Eurojob, a Dutch employment agency.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

According to Covebo, the acquisition strengthens its leading position in the temporary employment market of labour migrants in...

World – ‘Breakthrough Leadership' drives SIA’s Executive Forum Europe 2019

Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA), the global advisor on staffing and workforce solutions, has confirmed the list of speakers and the full agenda for the sixth annual Executive Forum Europe, taking place in London this November.

Executive Forum Europe is the premier staffing event for European...

UK – Number of working mothers reaches record high

More than three quarters, or 75.1%, of mothers with dependent children were in work in the UK for the period from April to June 2019, a record high, according to data from the Office of National Statistics.

The 75.1% figure is up from 74.2% during the same period last year.

ONS noted that the number of...

Europe – In tech: Coople receives $32 million in funding, expands into the Netherlands

Coople, a European flexible jobs platform, announced that it received additional funding of USD 32 million in Series C funding.

The proceeds from the funding round will be used to continue investing in the automation of Coople's online platform, to further expand within existing markets, and to launch...