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Netherlands – DPA Group appoints new CEO
28 August 2019DPA Group (DPA: NL), the Dutch staffing firm, announced today that Arnold van Mameren has been formally appointed as CEO of DPA Group.
Van Mameren succeeds Eric Winter, who has been at the helm of the company since 2011 and remains involved with DPA as a supervisory director.
DPA Group first...
Europe – Google to be investigated by competition regulators over claims it favours its own job search tool
28 August 2019Google is being investigated by regulators in Brussels over claims that it unfairly favors its tool for searching job listings, according to The Telegraph.
Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, issued a warning yesterday that Google could be engaging in anti-competitive...
UK – Employers shrug off economic uncertainty and continue to hire despite lower business confidence
28 August 2019While employers’ confidence in the UK economy remains low, they are still looking to hire, according to the Recruitment and Employment Confederation’s latest JobsOutlook report.
The JobsOutlook report shows that confidence levels are at net: -26, a fall of 1% from the previous rolling quarter....
Netherlands – Deliveroo must pay pension premium for riders with employment contracts, judge says
28 August 2019Human cloud food courier firm Deliveroo must pay a pension premium for all its employees in the Netherlands with an employment contract a sub-district court judge in the Netherlands has determined.
The ruling was made in proceedings initiated by the Industry Pension Fund for Professional Road Transport....
UK – Contract Watch: Sopra Steria appointed to Crown Commercial Framework
28 August 2019Sopra Steria Recruitment, owned by Resource Solutions Group, announced that it has been awarded a place on Crown Commercial Service’s framework to provide temporary and fixed term staff to NHS contracting authorities along with various other UK public sector bodies.
This framework was launched as a...
Netherlands – DPA Group shows signs of recovery
27 August 2019DPA Group (DPA: NL), the Dutch staffing firm, reported revenue for the first six months of the year of €75.3 million, an increase of 4.2% on an organic basis when compared to the previous year.
(€ millions) | H1 2019 | H1 2018 | Change | Organic |
Revenue | 75.3 | 78.5 | -4.0% ... |
Sweden – Wise Group second-quarter revenue flat, EBITDA sinks
27 August 2019Wise Group (WISE:SS), the Swedish staffing firm published preliminary results on Friday for the second quarter ending 30 June 2019 of SEK 240.4 million (€22.4 million), no change compared with the same quarter last year.
(SEK millions) | Q2 2019 | Q2 2018 | Change | Q2 2019 (€ millions) ... |
Sweden – NetJobs revenue tumbles in Q2, hit by weak Germany and Sweden
27 August 2019Swedish job board NetJobs (NJOB: STO) reported revenue for the second quarter ending 30 June 2019 of SEK 5.4 million (€0.5 million), a decrease of 42% compared with the same period last year.
(SEK millions) | Q2 2019 | Q2 2018 | Change | Q2 2019 (€ millions) |
Revenue | 5.4 | 9.2 ... |
Finland – VMP finalises merger with Smile, announces leadership changes
27 August 2019VMP Plc, a Helsinki-based HR services firm, announced that it completed its merger with Smile Personnel Services, a Finnish human resources services firm, creating a powerhouse HR services firm.
Both companies first announced the merger in July 2019 and was completed as a share exchange, in which Smile’s...
UK – HMRC accuses GlaxoSmithKline contractors of IR35 offences
27 August 2019HMRC has accused approximately 1,500 contractors who are currently or previously engaged by UK pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline of IR35 non-compliance for the 2018/2019 tax year.
The contractors received letters from the HMRC stating that they were operating outside of IR35 during the tax year. IR35 legislation...